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The database collects material from the 1. meeting of the 1. National Peoples Congress in 1954 ...

Description: The database collects material from the 1. meeting of the 1. National Peoples Congress in 1954 onwards up to the most recent one. For each meeting 会议 the material is structured into announcements, reports, list of participants and many more. To confine a search to a 类 not listed in the pull down menue, one has to enter for example 图片报道*李 into the 全文检索 slot to search for all photographs with the character 李 in its caption.

Cited Description: This database includes archives and publications of the Chinese central government, its ministries and subsidiaries, and regional authorities. The following are the main contents:
National Policies (2001- present)
Regional Policies (2001- present)
Speeches/Publications of Ministerial/Provincial Officers (2004- present)
National/Provincial/Ministerial Government Annual Statements (1983- present)
Foreign Minister's Spokesperson's Statements & Speeches (1997- present)
Foreign Minister's Press Conference (2001- present)
With the National People’s Congress and the National Committee of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference as its sources, the database provides official, authoritative research information on the Chinese government and other political issues in China.
The database is updated monthly or in a real time manner.

The CPPCC Database is a collection of archives and documents of the Chinese People's Political ...

Description: The CPPCC Database is a collection of archives and documents of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), including resolutions and statements, pictures, press conferences, important commentaries, representatives lists, agendas, session updates, reports, leaders'; activities, selected proposals and suggestions from representatives, news reports, video reports, etc. The database starts with the first meeting of the first conference in 1949 and also includes the most recent one. The ressource is updated quarterly or in a real time manner.
Searches may be confined to special conference sections, such as the name lists of the participants (组成名单). To confine searches for example to photographs you will have enter 图片报道*王 into the 全文检索 slot to find any 王 named in the caption of a photograph in this ressource.

This electronic database, published by the Erudition, Beijing, contains the electronic version of ...

Description: This electronic database, published by the Erudition, Beijing, contains the electronic version of the ·Vertitable Records" shilu 實錄 of the Ming and Qing dynasties in full text. The scanned images of the original are also provided. Containing all extant 14 shilu of the Ming and 13 of the Qing dynasty, the database gives access to historical data from 1368 up to about 1912. No
Veritable records comprise accounts of an emperors reign. They were compiled - after the death of the respective emperor - from the daily records (起居註) and from edicts, annoucements and other daily administrative records. Many sections of the Standard histories were compiled on the basis of these veritable records. So they are one step closer to being "real" historical documents. The genre of shilu started much earlier but the only complete set still extant today are those of the Ming and Qing. Shilu are assessed as one of the most important historical source for the study of the Ming and also for the Qing.
Veritable records were not meant for publication but for being kept in the palace. Nevertheless quite some copies of the Ming shilu are extant. The basis for the Ming shilu digitized text and images presented in this database seems to be the facsimile reproduction published 1940 under the aegis of Liang Hongzhang 梁鴻志. The text of the other, and today more standard edition of the Ming shilu published by the Taiwan Academia Sinica in the late 1960ies, is part of the Scripta Sinica database, also available via CrossAsia.

The currently subscribed section of this database gives access to a set of 1000 chronicles (年谱). ...

Description: The currently subscribed section of this database gives access to a set of 1000 chronicles (年谱). The complete database consists of altogether 10,000 documents and further assembles 8,000 family genealogies (家谱) and 600 diaries (日谱) from the Song-Yuan dynasties up to early 20th century.
The interface is similar to that of the Chinese Ancient Books (Jiben guji ku 基本古籍库) and digitized text and scanned images of the transcribed original are both provided.

This database contains archives and publications of the Communist Party since its establishment in ...

Description: This database contains archives and publications of the Communist Party since its establishment in 1921. It consists of four sections:
1. Leaders’ Activities (领导人活动) listing the members of the Standing Committees of the Political Bureau from the 15th CPC Central Committee onwards, providing portraits, a short biography and collecting published reports of their activities, speeches etc. The material often derives from the People's daily.
2. Communist Party of China (CPC) Archives and Important Documents (中共历次全会文献信息) starting from the 1. Communist Party's National Congress in 1921 up to the most recent one. The different pleanry sessions and sections may be searched separetely. By choosing 图片报道 from the pull down menue it is possible to confine ones search to the captions of a photograph.
3. Documents of the Communist Party of China (CPC) National Congress (中国共产党重要文献) containing the collected writings of Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Liu Shaoqi, Zhu De, Ren Bishi, Deng Xiaoping and Chen Yunwen, the 中国共产党重要文件选集 in 18 vol. and the 建国以来重要文献选编 in 20 vol., as well as the document collections that are published since the 1980ies (the 新时期) by the 中央文献研究室.
4. Major Events and Important Figures of Communist Party of China (中国共产党重要事件、人物) containing photographs and short biographies of leaders and important members of the CPC as well main as a year by year history of the CPC from 1921 up to 1939 and a selection of 20 main incidents in the history of the party.
The database is updated monthly.

The database offers to access to Chinese laws in English translation as well as some hundred case ...

Description: The database offers to access to Chinese laws in English translation as well as some hundred case studies, texts of international collective agreements and WTO-documents. Additionally, there are always up-date-news on Chinese legislation, TOCs of official gazettes and learned journals. Searches can be performed either in Enlish or in Chinese. The results may be displayed in both, English and Chinese.
Please note that LawInfoChina is not the English version of Chinalawinfo.com.
The earliest documents date from the late 1950ies. The ressource is constantly updated.
In case you are not able to see the full texts, please make sure you are logged in correctly. In the upper left corner the text "Welcome spk-berlin" should appear. If not press IP-Logon. If this also does not work, please inform us. You may also try the "old" platform: http://erf.sbb.spk-berlin.de/han/lawinfochinaenglisch/.

The records collected in 'CiNii articles' come from various sources and in some cases the database ...

Description: The records collected in 'CiNii articles' come from various sources and in some cases the database navigates the user to the original source of the record in order to provide the full text of the article. The database offers access to full texts for about one forth of the records. 'CiNii articles' contains an article, an author and a full text search. Via the link "CiNii Journal with full text Directory" it is possible to browse the table of contents of the respective journals.

Cited Description: CiNii (Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator, pronounced like "sigh-knee") is a database service that enables searching of information on academic articles published in academic society journals or university research bulletins, or articles included in the National Diet Library's Japanese Periodicals Index Database.

The database Online Contents - SSG East and Southeast Asia provides access to articles from over ...

Description: The database Online Contents - SSG East and Southeast Asia provides access to articles from over 255 periodicals beginning with the year of publication 1993 in the field of East Asian studiesis a selection of bibliographic data from the Swets database Online Contents which is supplemented weekly by additional data provided by a number of German libraries.

The database Online Contents - SSG Asia and North Africa is a selection of bibliographic data from ...

Description: The database Online Contents - SSG Asia and North Africa is a selection of bibliographic data from the Swets database Online Contents which is enhanced regularly by additional data provided by the participating libraries

TEPS is an on-line database offering the largest collection of full-text Taiwanese periodicals ...

Description: TEPS is an on-line database offering the largest collection of full-text Taiwanese periodicals around the world. Currently TEPS contains articles of more than 900 Taiwanese periodicals of different subjects. The quantity is continually increasing.

This database offers access to bibliographic information from the Shanghai tushuguan on Chinese ...

Description: This database offers access to bibliographic information from the Shanghai tushuguan on Chinese periodicals from 1857-2006. The subscription has not been extended, because CAJ will offer most journals included up to the just published issue. Via the same interface the "full texts" of the 晚清期刊、民国时期期刊 (1833-1949) database of the same provider resp. the ShangTu are available. If you need anything you find in here, please order the article through Blauer Leihverkehr of the East Asia Department of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.

The database contains 146.000 documents from 1949 onwards. Covered are state and local laws and ...

Description: The database contains 146.000 documents from 1949 onwards. Covered are state and local laws and regulations.
If you have problems accessing the full texts, please check if you are correctly logged in. The text "spk-berlin：您已登录成功，欢迎使用！(IP)" should appear in upper left corner. If not please press the "IP logon" button (repeatetly) until you are logged in.
If this method does not work, please inform us. In urgent cases you may also try the "old" platform: http://erf.sbb.spk-berlin.de/han/lawinfochinachinesisch.

Newest features of Guoxue baodian are that results are not only shown in simplified but also in ...

Description: Newest features of Guoxue baodian are that results are not only shown in simplified but also in traditional Chinese. Search is now also possible in traditional characters. Additionally, the database is searchable by dynasties and different search parameters can be combined (keyword / dynasty e.g.). An associative search function for subject headings is also available. 1.000 titles have been added to the database, and as a new part of Guoxoe baodian a database of more than 50.000 poems of all epochs has been added. Another strength of the database is the great amount of brush notes 笔记 and theatre pieces and novels (白话 and 文言). By 2012 the database collects more than 4000 titles. Vor each title a short description is given.
A number of (quick help) reference works are implemented. Moreover a collection of pictures, illustrations, paitings etc. has been added (超清图库). This has to be searched separately.

WHOPLUS is a searchable database of about 330,000 Japanese and international historical and ...

Description: WHOPLUS is a searchable database of about 330,000 Japanese and international historical and contemporary figures (as of November 2012). Nichigai WHOPLUS is divided into two files: WHO and Jinbutsu odan file (人物ファイル横断, lit. Figures Cross-reference). WHO provides a full text search with the detailed search options while Jinbutsu odan file searches name headings and full text. The setting when entering the database is the Jinbutsu odan file that comprises all data.Please note, that access to WhoPlus through CrossAsia is a terminal connection. Java runtime 1.5 is needed!

Wenshi ziliao is a fulltext database providing material from Chinese provinces and districts of the ...

Description: Wenshi ziliao is a fulltext database providing material from Chinese provinces and districts of the time of the Republic of China (1911-1949) and the People's Republic up to 2006. This material collected from 1960 onwards is hardly indexed in common bibliographies.Please note, that this access to Wenshi ziliao through CrossAsia is a terminal connection. Java runtime 1.5 is needed! Read the requirements.
There is an alternative access to the same material entering from the Chinamaxx web site via a link below the categories list.

A manual is available from the website of the provider Digital Heritage Publishing: ht ...

Description: A manual is available from the website of the provider Digital Heritage Publishing: http://www.sikuquanshu.com
Please note, that access to Siku Quanshu through CrossAsia is a terminal connection.
As only a limited number of users can access the database at the same time, please log out from the database (登出) after you have finished your research, so that your "seat" is free for the next user.

Cited Description: This electronic database, published by the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Digital Heritage Publishing Ltd., contains on at least 183 CD-ROMs the complete contents, in full text and image, of the 3460+ titles of the Wenyuange edition of the Siku quanshu (1782) plus a few other useful tools. The total content is a staggering 800 million characters, and is arranged under almost 2 million piece titles. Some of the titles contained in the Si ku quan shu are themselves large compilations, such as the QuanTangshi, Zizhi tongjian, XuZi zhi tongjian changbian, Wenxuan, Peiwen yunfu, Taiping yulan, the 25 Histories. One should realize, however, that the Siku quanshu editions are not always the best ones available, nor are they always complete: as is well known, its compilation involved censorship. The Electronic Siku quanshu ("e-SKQS") is useful not only for searching, but also for studying: it has linked dictionaries.

Access to the collection of 141 subscribed Apabi yearbooks. The yearbooks mostly come from the ...

Description: Access to the collection of 141 subscribed Apabi yearbooks. The yearbooks mostly come from the subject class 国情地情综合 (General situation of the Land and the Nation) or from economy related fields. The yearbook series only cover the years up to 2010. For newer yearbooks please refer to the CNKI yearbooks and statistial yearbooks databases.
The database platform offers fulltext search and subject browsing and, as advanced search, the possibility to confine ones search for example to "statistical data" or "pictures". When clicking a thumbnail image from the hitlist, the yearbook title opens with bibliographical data and a table of content for navigation, which opens only the respective part of the volume. This view allows right-mouse-clicks for saving the image and the option for printing the page. For some tables a link to a html-version of the page is offered beneath the image. As for the other books in the new Apabi platform a 翻阅原书 option is offered. This opens the book in a special viewer, which allows to see and page through the book as whole, use an embedded OCR and search the book. No printing or downloading option is offered.
The Apabi yearbook titles are also searchable via the EAD online catalogue (crossasia.stabikat.de).
The Yearbook database is now integrated into the Apabi Digital Library platform. To access the "old" (but already web-based) version of the ressource follow this LINK.

This project answers the need for clear, intelligible and informative English-language sources ...

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Cited Description: This project answers the need for clear, intelligible and informative English-language sources relating to China and the West, 1793-1980, which can be used in the classroom or in course packs.

It is also ideal for independent projects on almost any aspect of Chinese history during the two centuries of monumental social and political upheaval that ultimately recreated China into a modern power. It comprises:

A large body of maps, colour paintings, photographs and drawings depicting people, places, customs and events that will enliven any study of China.

Substantial papers of key individuals involved in the Chinese Maritime Customs service from ECM and CAV Bowra to Robert Hart and Frederick Maze.

Records of major diplomatic missions to China ranging from the late 18th and early 19th century missions of Macartney and Amherst to those of Nixon and Heath in the 20th century.

Papers of missionaries active in all regions of China from Canton and Macao to Shanghai and Peking.

Extensive, fully searchable run of the Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal (1867-1941) and North China Mission resp and North China Shantung Mission quarterly paper (1893-1936)

Recently opened files from the National Archives at Kew relating to the thawing of relations with China in the 1970s.

Edward S Morse (1838-1925) was a great polymath – notable for his work in natural history, ...

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Cited Description: Edward S Morse (1838-1925) was a great polymath – notable for his work in natural history, ethnography and art history – but, perhaps most famous for his work in bringing Japan and the West closer together.

He was one of the first Americans to live in Japan – teaching science at the Imperial University of Tokyo – and he devoted much of his life to the task of documenting life in Japan before it was transformed by Western modernization. In addition to preserving the household records of a samurai family and many accounts of the tea ceremony, Morse made notes on subjects as diverse as shop signs, fireworks, hairpins, agricultural tools, artists’ studios, music, games, printing, carpentry, the Ainu, gardens, household construction, art and architecture.

An accomplished draughtsman, his pencil and ink drawings, enliven his diaries and correspondence and make his papers a pleasure to read. The papers include:

His original Japan diaries, which run to over 3,000 pages and contain over 1,300 sketches

Journals of visits to England, France and Germany in the 1880s showing the interest of Europeans in gaining authentic insights into ordinary life in Japan and China.

Scrapbooks with a wealth of rare and ephemeral material on a myriad of subjects.

Records of his publications and lectures revealing his interests in archaeology, art, astronomy, ethnology, religion and zoology, as well as his desire to encourage an American audience to appreciate Asian society and culture.

Morse was one of the earliest and most important mediators between American and Asian societies. It is fitting that his papers should now enable scholars to explore these links.

This new online collection comprises a descriptive, annotated bibliography of 654 early Western ...

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Cited Description: This new online collection comprises a descriptive, annotated bibliography of 654 early Western books on Imperial China up to 1850, all to be found in the Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. The collection is based on the book Western Books on China published up to 1850 by John Lust.
The material is of unique historical interest, containing scrutiny of China by Western societies. The material contains an abundance of observations. The books, in a variety of Western languages, testify to the formidable difficulties encountered by Westerners, who attempted to extend their own familiar historical, linguistic and religious perceptions to the Chinese context.
Please note that you may also use this database in a terminal server session

KPM provides more than 100 real-time reports on a daily basis including all the paper articles in 6 ...

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Cited Description: KPM provides more than 100 real-time reports on a daily basis including all the paper articles in 6 newspapers such as Rodong Sinmun and Pyongyang Times as well as articles and treatises in 15 journals including “Economic Research.”
KPM also offers news reports by the local journalists of the “Pyongyang Branch of Choson Sinbo.” News on political parties and government offices, news on metropolitan and local areas, in-depth coverage in the economic field, interviews with people in various industries, and so on, can be viewed with site photographs in real time.

"ProQuest Dissertations and Theses — Full text is the world's most comprehensive collecti ...

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Cited Description: "ProQuest Dissertations and Theses — Full text is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. The official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research. PQDT — Full Text includes 2.7 million searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1.2 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works."

This web-based fulltext database of the Shitong 十通 provides image/text comparision and all other ...

Description: This web-based fulltext database of the Shitong 十通 provides image/text comparision and all other features of the Sibu congkan 09 Extended Edition. For more details see there.
The Shitong, the "Ten Encyclopedic (or General) Histories", assemble ten central historical works, that aimed at covering all of Chinese history. They mainly focus on governmental institutions and their changes in duty or in name, but also assemble a great variety of sources and material under rubrics such as boarders, regional administration, the examination system, law, astronomy, catastrophes, bibliography, plants and animals etc. The genre was initiated by Du You in the late 8th century with his 200 volume work Tongdian and adapted, modified and extended in scope by the famous scholars Zheng Qiao (1106-1162) and Ma Duanlin (1254-1323). These works soon were published together as the "Three tong" 三通. In the 18th century new interest in the genre arouse and six continuations respectively extensions were published. While the first three works relied on an individual scholar, the Qing works were all imperially sponsored and officially published. Each of the later took one of the early works as his model. In 1927 the Qingchao Xu Wenxian tongkao appeared and the full set of "Ten tong" was published by the Commercial Press 1935-1937. The scanned and digitized version presented here is based on this edition. The compilation is structured according to the line of tradition into 3 “dian”, 3 “zhi” and 4 “kao”. For a chronological list of the ten titles, see below.
List of the Shitong with title, author, and number of juan:
1 通典. (唐) 杜佑, 200 j.
2 通志. (宋) 郑樵, 200 j.
3 文献通考. (元) 马端临, 348 j.
4 续通典. (清) 嵇璜、刘墉 等, 150 j.
5 续通志. (清) 嵇璜、刘墉 等, 640 j.
6 续文献通考. (清) 张廷玉 250 j.
7 清朝通典.(清) 嵇璜、刘墉 等 100 j.
8 清朝通志.(清) 嵇璜、刘墉 等 126 j.
9 清朝文献通考. (清) 张廷玉 300 j.
10 清朝续文献通考. (近代) 刘锦藻, 400 j.

This completely web-based database comprises two outstanding and huge publications of the 1920s and ...

Description: This completely web-based database comprises two outstanding and huge publications of the 1920s and 1930ies that assembled hundreds of representative traditional or pre-1912 Chinese books, i.e. the Sibu congkan 四部叢刊 ("Printed Collection of the Four Branches of Literature") and the Sibu beiyao 四部備要 ("Essentials of the Four Branches of Literature").
While the Sibu congkan facsimiled rare and precious editions, the Sibu beiyao focussed on commented and annotated versions of these works and aimed at "correcting" character mistakes of these editions. As the publications were competitors then, they in research today supplement each other. The database allows parallel searches in both collections. While the Sibu congkan part of the database provides scanned images and the transcribed text, the Sibu beiyao part contains the transcribed texts only. No images of the original are provided.
The Sibu congkan contained here is identical with the new "stand-alone" version also provided in CrossAsia (for more information see there).
The Sibu beiyao part of this database follows the basic four-fold structure of the original and is divided into the sections jing "canonical works", shi "history", zi "philosophy/monographs" and ji "literature/collections". To search for a title one has to browse through the structure. No title or author search is implemented yet. A more complete reference of each work is shown at mouse-over. The database provides a full-text search which allows the use of logical operators under "advanced search" (高级检索). Chinese characters can also be entered using a "handwriting input" (手写输入). Contrary to the Sibu congkan part of the database, no comparison of the full-text with the original scans is possible for the Sibu beiyao (so better switch off the "magnifying glass").
There are built-in dictionaries for Chinese characters, biographies, place names and official titles. A "related characters" (关联字) look-up listing variants and old forms etc. is also implemented. To view these characters in the fulltext version, you need to install a special font (HT_CJK+.TTF) provided on the login page of the provider (click 推出 on the db's interface).
The Sibu beiyao was originally published by the Shanghai Zhonghua Publishing House (中华书局) in five collections between 1924 and 1931 assembling 336 titles with altogether 11305 juan. The 2500 traditionally bound volumes were printed using a Song-style lead character set the publishing house had bought from a famous book collector. Asking the scholarly community for help in erasing typesetting errors, they in 1935 published a corrected and punctuated edition bound in Western style in 100 volumes. This edition was reproduced by the Taiwan Zhonghua shuju 1966-1975. The version digitized in this database is the first edition without punctuation.

The Gujin tushu jicheng, compiled by Chen Menglei et al. was published with movable copper type i ...

Description: The Gujin tushu jicheng, compiled by Chen Menglei et al. was published with movable copper type in 1726-28. It is by far the largest leishu that have been printed (6,109 subsections, 852,408 pages.) Under each subsection excerpts from sources from early writings up to the 17th century are gathered, taking a 18th-century standpoint of what has to be included and how.

The Gujin tushu jicheng can be searched as a whole or confined to a specific class or subgroup. Scans of the original pages are also provided (under "版面影像"). The edition shown is the so called 「中華版」 edition printed in 1934 showing the original 1728 copper printed text in reduced size (9 original pages on 1 page, deleting 版心 etc.). The 中華版 is the edition most popular and most commonly referred to.

Only a small part of the hand-written imperial encyclopaedia from the Ming Dynasty, Yongle dadian, ...

Description: Only a small part of the hand-written imperial encyclopaedia from the Ming Dynasty, Yongle dadian, has survived history, some volumes dispersed over the world. The Yongle dadian database makes available the currently known 813 juan as full text and as monochrome facsimile.

The Song huiyao (宋会要) was compiled by a special office during the Song, collecting important ...

Description: The Song huiyao (宋会要) was compiled by a special office during the Song, collecting important documents on institutions, regulations and constitutions etc. It existed only in manuscript form and got lost later. Larger parts of the Song huiyao were copied into the Ming dynasty encyclopaedia Yongle dadian. From there the texts were recovered by Xu Song 徐松 (1781-1848) and compiled into the work digitized in this database, the Song huiyao jigao 宋會要輯稿 (literally "Draft re-compilation of the Important documents of the Song"). Xu Song's work was never printed. 1936 the Beiping tushuguan published a photomechanical reproduction of his manuscript.
The database allows comparison of the digitized full text and the scanned images of the original. The database is fully searchable. (The provider's English title of the database is "Song meeting and essential manuscripts")

Shanghai, published between 3. November 1904 and December 1948.
Contains: 44 juan 卷 (volu ...

Description: Shanghai, published between 3. November 1904 and December 1948.
Contains: 44 juan 卷 (volumes), 819 qi 期 (numbers), 813 ce 册 (books), 3 kinds of zengkan 增刊 (supplements), 46 kinds zhuanhao 专号 and jinianhao 纪念号 (special numbers and commemorative numbers), 22 kinds of zhuanji 专辑and teji 特辑 (special editions).
Published: Monthly, later fortnightly, then monthly again. The period of publication spans the important events and periods of modern Chinese history since 1904, e.g.: the end of the Qing dynasty, Xinhai geming 辛亥革命 (Xinhai Revolution), Wusi yundong 五四运动 (May Fourth Movement [1919]), Kang-Ri zhanzheng 抗日战争 (Anti-Japanese War) Jiefang zhanzheng 解放战争 (War of Liberation).
(Under the editorship of Wang Yunwu 王芸五 [1877-1979], the journal reappeard in Taiwan from July 1967 to 1990. These volumes are not contained in this digitized collection.)
All volumes can be searched under the following headings(full text and scanned originals) :juanqi 卷期 (number), lanmu 栏目 (column), zuozhe作者 (author), andzhuanti 专题 (subject), and furthermore in the five categories quanwen 全文(full text), biaoti 标题(article title), zuozhe 作者 (author), tupian 图片 (picture), andguanggao 广告(advertisement).
(N.b.: Non-Chinese/Western personal names are arranged alphabetically and listed under first names.)
Originally, 15 columns included topics like: Instructions, Internal Affairs, Military Affairs, Foreign Relations, Education, Industry and Commerce, Literature.
In 1911, under editor-in-chief Du Yaquan 杜亚泉, the format was changed to sextodecimo (shiliu kai 十六开), and the issues appeared fortnightly, containing approximately 100.000-200.000 characters. More pictures were included and the diversity of subject matter was enlarged by new columns, such as Latest Politics, Economy, Ideology, Science and Scholarship, Societal Questions; newly added were selected articles in translation.
After the May Fourth Movement (1919), editor-in-chief Hu Yuzhi 胡愈之 introduced the modern colloquial language Baihua 白话 and made the publication accessible to a wider audience lacking knowledge in literary classical Chinese. New columns were introduced, such as Time-critical Commentary, New World Currents, The Literary Garden. Dongfang zazhi evolved and finally became an encompassing journal of social sciences with the longest lifespan in China. At the Shanghai yinshuguan, it ranks among the most important publications in the history of the publishing house.

Access to 700.000 Chinese EBooks of different subjects and from different periods (1900-2009). ...

Description: Access to 700.000 Chinese EBooks of different subjects and from different periods (1900-2009). Full-text search is implemented and also available through Duxiu.
Books are provided in an online reader format (often providing a table of contents to jump to a certain chapter, allows searches within the book and copy-paste of text passages using the "OCR" tool implemented) and also in PDF-format for download (downloaded PDFs are not searchable anymore).

The database gives access to a collection of national and regional Chinese newspapers from 2007 ...

Description: The database gives access to a collection of national and regional Chinese newspapers from 2007 until now. Searches in full text, author, title, time range, picture captions etc., as well as online reading are avaible for the following selection of newspapers:< br /> 解放日报, 东方早报, 北京晨报, 中华合作时报, 中国文物报 starting with 2007; < br /> 人民日报, 每日新报, 都市快报, 武汉晨报, 三湘都市报, 南方都市报, 三峡都市报, 西海都市报, 兰州鑫报 starting with 12.2009.To read the latest edition of these newspapers you will often still have to go to the respective web page of the newspaper or to here. With a delay of a few days they will be available and searchable through the database.
Since mid 2011 the Newspaper database has moved to a new platform. The old platform is still accessible here.
Registered CrossAsia users who want to take advantage of the functions provided by the Apabi Reader should use the terminal server connection to China newspapers. Please note, that to do so Java runtime 1.5 is needed! Read the requirements. To read the newspapers the Citrix-server you get connected to will provide an Internet Explorer and the Apabi reader which is necessary to download and read the newspapers. A help files for both platforms are provided.

The database is the digital equivalent of a 16 volume printed collection of stone inscriptions ...

Description: The database is the digital equivalent of a 16 volume printed collection of stone inscriptions taken from books about (金石志) or containing reproductions of inscriptions (such as 地方志) published up to 1949. Those materials are reproduced in facsimile but there are no rubbings or photographs of the actual inscribed physical object.
A speciality of the database provider Shutong is the use of a special font, that allows them to transcribe traditionel texts with all their character variants. The stone inscription database has moreover included a reference work for people, places and official names as well as for character variants, words and proverbs and allusions, 成语典故.

This database The „Database of Chinese Classic Ancient Books“ (Zhongguo Jiben Gujiku) is one of the ...

Description: This database The „Database of Chinese Classic Ancient Books“ (Zhongguo Jiben Gujiku) is one of the largest digital archives of ancient Chinese prints. It contains nearly 10,000 titles (160,000 juan) of classical works across all dynasties up to the Minguo-period (early 20th century). All texts are provided in full text and image format, allowing for a direct comparison both between digitized text and original text image and in some cases between different editions of the text. Retrieval of the digital text is possible but limited to 200 characters in each step.
All titles of the Jiben guji database are also entered into the EAD online catalogue (crossasia.stabikat.de). Due to the necessary Citrix-environment of the database no direct link from the catalogue entry to the digital book is possible.

The Sibu congkan 四部叢刊 is a collection of 504 authoritative editions of historical monographs (3,134 ...

Description: The Sibu congkan 四部叢刊 is a collection of 504 authoritative editions of historical monographs (3,134 volumes) published by the Commercial Press in 1919-1936. The titles span Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties and include early manuscripts and rare prints. The Sibu congkan was the first collection that used photolithography and thus produced a collection of facsimiles. Aim was to provide better editions than any then-available typeset edition.
The electronic Sibu Congkan is based on the Shanghai Hanfen Lou version kept in the Peking University Rare Books Collection. Covering all 3 series published in the year 1922, 1932 and 1936 respectively, it reproduces 232,478 pages and 90 million characters. Each series is categorized into the traditional categories Canonical works (jing 经), History (shi 史), Philosophy/Monographs (zi 子), and Collections/Literature (ji 集).
This fully web-based version of the Sibu Congkan is based on the on the "old" CD version, which remains available here: http://erf.sbb.spk-berlin.de/han/sibu.
In addition the new version is supplemented with the editorial notes by Zhang Yuanji 张元济 attached to many of the works. The database is provided with the same features as the "Sibu congkan 09 Extended Version", i.e. fulltext search with logical operators, character, biographical, place name and official title dictionaries and handwriting input of characters.

YOMIDAS REKISHIKAN, the new database service of The Yomiuri Shimbun, is Japan’s first online ...

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Cited Description: YOMIDAS REKISHIKAN, the new database service of The Yomiuri Shimbun, is Japan’s first online database service that allows a user to search or browse through more than 10 million articles carried by the newspaper since its inaugural issue in 1874. Images of news pages from the inaugural issue in 1874 up to 1989 have been recorded. All news articles can be found using headlines and key words. Old news articles can be found using words in common use today. About 4.8 million news articles of The Yomiuri Shimbun are available from 1986 onward. About 175,000 articles of The Daily Yomiuri are available from 1989 onward. The three databases mentioned above can be searched using “key words,” such as names of persons, places and events; “fields,” such as politics, economy and culture; and “date” of publication. Note that the search by key word is carried out through “YOMIDAS YOGO JISHO,” a glossary developed by The Yomiuri Shimbun, which enables a user to find a news article with ease. In the personality database there are about 26,000 contemporary persons in many fields who are linked to related news articles. Moreover, the new database is equipped with various functions, including “Imidas 2008 (c) Shueisha,” a glossary of the latest terminology of current affairs compiled by Shueisha Inc.

The “Kikuzo II visual for libraries” is the electronic version of Asahi Shimbun. The database ...

Description: The “Kikuzo II visual for libraries” is the electronic version of Asahi Shimbun. The database covers the articles since the initial number in 1879 until today. The years 1879 until 1989 can be searched as PDF files. For the articles since 1985 a full-text search is provided. The database also includes an archive of historical photographs (approximately 10000 pictures) that were taken in various Asiatic countries between the so called Manchurian incident (1931/32) until the end of the World War II. Furthermore the biographical information of approximately 35.000 contemporary persons can be searched. The online version of the dictionary Chiezou is also included in this database. Also the pictoral magazine Asahi Gurafu (= The Asahi picture news) of the years 1923-1945 can be searched.

Initiated on imperial order, the Kangxi zidian 康熙字典 (The Imperial Character Dictionary) was first ...

Description: Initiated on imperial order, the Kangxi zidian 康熙字典 (The Imperial Character Dictionary) was first published in 1716 after about five years of compilation. Emperor Kangxi wrote the preface to the dictionary and thus granted the book and the system of 214 radicals the dictionary uses for structuring its content official status. Containing 47.035 entries it remained the most popular and comprehensive Chinese character dictionary up to time Morohashi's Dai kanwa jiten was published in the 1950ies.
The database provides radical, stroke count and pinyin/zhuyinzimu indexes. Full text searches are also possible. For each character its modern reading and the Unicode code point are given. The display of the entries can be switched between simplified and traditional characters and scans from the late Qing Wentong edition (文同書局) are provided for comparison. The original pages may also be printed.

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Notes: Please note, that access to the Kangxi zidian through CrossAsia is a terminal connection. Java runtime 1.5 is needed!

The digital library of the Natioanl Library of Korea provides cataloge, contens and fulltext ...

Description: The digital library of the Natioanl Library of Korea provides cataloge, contens and fulltext informaion of 22 databases. Databases that can be assessed at the digital library are Antique Book, Official Gazette (1894~1945), Newspaper (Before the Year of 1945), Hundred Pieces of Korean Classics, Korea-Related Data Published in Foreign Language, Data of Single Edition (Before 1996), Doctoral Dissertation of Humanity Science Field etc.

Cited Description: Chosun Ilbo Archives contains of 370,000 pages by full text PDF, Html that is indexed 2,720,000 articles over all field of social history.
Such as under the rule of Japanese imperialism and modern times with Korea's historical archives is offered by full text online service
Collection Coverage is from first issue by publication 1920 to current issue
Annually 6,000 pages update.

Cited Description: Donga Ilbo Archives contains of 360,000 pages by full text PDF, Html that is indexed 2,700,000 articles over all field of social history.
Such as under the rule of Japanese imperialism and modern times with Korea's historical archives is offered by full text online service
Collection Coverage is from first issue by publication 1920 to current issue
Annually 6,000 pages update.

JapanKnowledge is a website that offers a large number of reference works. The contents include ...

Description: JapanKnowledge is a website that offers a large number of reference works. The contents include important dictionaries such as Nihon dai hyakka zensho (=Nipponica) (large general Japanese encyclopedia), Nihon kokugo daijiten (Japanese dictionary), Nihon kokushi daijiten (encyclopedia for Japanese history), Nihon rekishi chimei taikei (historic geographical encyclopedia), Jitsû (character dictionary) and also the "Encyclopedia of Japan". In addtion the dictionaries of current words Imidas and Gendai yôgo no kiso chishiki are included. Also fulltexts of books in the Tôyô bunko series and the collection of classic Japanese literature Shinpen nihon koten bungaku zenshû is to be found.

The database offers a simple and an advanced search. Not only the headings of the dictionary entries can be searched, but also the fulltext of the reference works. The advanced search includes also the option to search only the content of several large dictionaries individually (single version). The third search option is called "bookshelf" and offers a browse function with limited search possibilities. Please note that one content, the Kojiruien, is only available through the "bookshelf" menu. In order to activate the browse display please tick on "Flashで本文表示". When a single record is displayed the Knowledge Searcher function can be used. Please click on the respective button which changes from white to lilac colour. When you highlight a term you want to know more about with the activated Knowledge Searcher function another simple search is carried out automatically and the search result is displayed in a new window.

The resource contains not only the full set of the English version of the Beijing Review (or Peking ...

Description: The resource contains not only the full set of the English version of the Beijing Review (or Peking Review respectively 北京周报) from its first issue in 1958 on, but also the full sets of its printed German, French, Spanish and Japanese equivalents, i.e. the Beijing Rundschau (Peking Rundschau), the Beijing Information (Pekin Information), the 北京周報 (pekin shuho) and the Beijing Informa (Pekin Informa), which all started in 1963/1964 (with the exception of two Japanese issues in 1957) and stopped being published in paper in 2000. They are now continued in electronic form and only the English version still has a parallel paper version. None of the born-digital versions are currently included in the database. The Chinese version, the Beijing zhoubao, is also NOT included.
The full text of all years and issues of one language contained in the database are searchable at a time; the articles are downloadable as PDF; image captions can be searched separately.
It is moreover possible to easily switch between the different language editions of one specific issue and thus compare them.
Beijing Review is offered via the Sinoperi portal which also offers Qiushi 求实, China Pictorial (人民画报) and People's China (人民中国). Currently CrossAsia has only also subscribed Qiushi. Renmin huabao and Renmin zhongguo can be searched and hit lists showing bibliographical information and the respective text snippet are shown, but no download of fulltext view is possible.

Cited Description: Beijing Review is China's only national news magazine in English. It is published every week in Beijing, by the China International Publishing Group (CIPG), Launched in March 1958, Beijing Review reports and comments on the country's social, political, economic end cultural affairs, policy changes and latest developments. It also offers in-depth analysis on major regional and international events, and provides consulting and information services.
Over the past 50years, Beijing Review has strived to maintain objective and comprehensive reporting, and is regarded highly, both domestically and internationally, for its effort to serve the needs of its readers, with a circulation of over 70,000 per issue Beijing Review is distributed throughout China and in 150 countries and regions worldwide. Its readers include statesmen, business leaders, government officials, company executives, economists, researchers, scholars and white-collar workers, etc.
In addition to the English-language print edition, Beijing Review also publishes online editions in simplified Chinese, English, French, German and Japanese.

The "Historical Book Catalogue of China" (中国历代典籍总目) assembles currently more than 2 Million e ...

Description: The "Historical Book Catalogue of China" (中国历代典籍总目) assembles currently more than 2 Million entries of historical Chinese titles from more than 20 different catalogues. Further extensions are planned. The resource collects and structures all information on Chinese historical books contained in the bibliographical chapters of the Standard Histories, private and officially compiled historical bibliographies as well as current and historical library and topical catalogues. The entries can be browsed from different angles of research perspective i.e. bibliographical category (經史子集叢), kind of catalogue (歷史著錄、館藏著錄 …), time the book was composed, time of printing, kind of edition (稿本、活字本、刻本 …) and place owning a copy (中國、美國、日本 …). The information of each edition was analysed and filed into different data fields to allow complex searches (高級檢索) and advanced statistic analysis of the data (數據分析). An extensive help manual is provided (see 關於我們).

CHANT offers access to different types of Ancient Chinese texts. It consists of the following ...

Description: CHANT offers access to different types of Ancient Chinese texts. It consists of the following databases: oracle bone inscriptions (甲骨文文庫: Jiaguwen database), bronce inscriptions (金文文庫: Jinwen database), texts on bamboo slips or silk (竹簡帛書文庫: Jianbo database), texts dating from Han and Pre-Han periods (先秦兩漢文庫) and from the Six Dynasties (魏晉南北朝文庫). While the first four databases assemble transcriptions and images of excavated text written on the different materials, the latter two only give typed texts.
You will have to install a special font for each of the first four databases.
As a special feature of the database, statistics of the number of different character used in these texts and the frequency of these characters are given.

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Notes: To login to the database please click the 機構用戶登入-button to the right: "for IP users only" (to access the subscribed content you first have to log in with CrossAsia).

The Scripta sinica database is based on an academic selection of traditional titles relevant to ...

Description: The Scripta sinica database is based on an academic selection of traditional titles relevant to Chinese history. The searchable full texts are based on modern philological standard editions, thus interpunctuation is provided.As one of its specialities the database contains a wide range of brushnotes (筆記) and a transcription of the Zhengtong Daozang 正統道藏 and other religious texts (under 子部 : 宗教 and 釋家). The used edition of a text (from which the page number etc. are taken) can be checked using 書目瀏覽). Recently, the editors of Scripta Sinica have started and will continue to add image scans to the text files.They are indicated by the red character [圖] just above therespective text. A click will open the scanned image of the original.Further images will be added only if there is a copy of that particular book in the library of Academia Sinica.

Cited Description: The project for the Scripta Sinica database began in 1984. The first aim of this project was to digitize all documents essential to research in traditional Sinology. Secondly, a full-text database was established for academic research. Until present, Scripta Sinica is the largest Chinese full text database to encompass an enormous breadth of historical materials of this scale.
More than 460 titles and 402,000,000 characters of materials pertaining to the traditional Chinese classics have been included in the database and have been categorized with meticulous care. The Scripta Sinica database contains almost all of the important Chinese classics, especially those related to Chinese history. In the future, we will continue with the digitalization of more historical materials, and add new features to the system. We hope to provide scholars, students, and the general public with an excellent full-text database and search engine for the study of Chinese history and culture.

Notes: To enter the database you will have to click the "授權使用"-button at the start page.

While the metadata of the database are also searchable freely on the web (ht ...

Description: While the metadata of the database are also searchable freely on the web (http://archive.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/mctkm2/index.html), the subscribed version gives access to actually view and read all the documents. A special viewer is needed so CrossAsia provides access via a Citrix-connection where the viewer is already installed. To enter the subscribed version of the database please click "授權使用" and enter one of the login and passwords given at the entry page. You also have to enter the random number shown in blue.
The database allows simple and advanced searches. In the latter you may also select the document's language. Hits lists can be filtered by time, type of document, issuing authority, issuing person and document language.
Clicking a sequence number in your hit list will open the detailed view of the documents metadata, by clicking the document icon of these metadata a file is downloaded and shown in the database viewer. To return to the metadata close the viewer by clicking "結束離開"; to further return to the hit list click "回簡目顯示" in the upper left corner of the screen.
The metadata of a document may also contain where and in what printed collection of archive materials the respective document is reproduced (mostly in facsimile). However, the reproduction in the database is made from the original, not the printed facsimile. The following collections are referenced by the database:
《明清檔案》
《明清史料》
《清代官書記臺灣鄭氏亡事》
《內閣大庫書檔舊目》
《清代法制研究》
《明清檔案存真選輯》
A selection of example documents are presented in an online exhibition of the Academia sinica (Archives of the Grand Secretariat); explanations of the different genres of documents and other background information are provided by the Grand Secretariats Archive Project, that also provided the metadata of the database: Grand Secretariat Archive Project).
A sister project of the National Palace Museum in Tabei is the 《清代宮中檔奏摺及軍機處檔摺件》. Here again the 索引 is freely available on the web, the 全文影像資料庫 needs a yearly fee and is currently not subscribed by CrossAsia. A short description can be found here.
More free recources of NPM in Taiwan are assembled here ( http://www.npm.gov.tw/digital/archives/a01.html) and here ( ( http://npmhost.npm.gov.tw/tts/npmmeta/dblist.htm).

Cited Description: "The archives of the Grand Secretariat currently housed at the Institute were originally kept at the Grand Secretariat Storehouse in the Ch’ing imperial palace. They were removed from the Storehouse when it underwent renovation in 1909. After the overthrow of the Ch’ing, these archives changed hands several times, and were, at one point, even sold to a paper recycling factory. Eventually, the Institute purchased them from Li Sheng-to, a book collector, in1929 thanks to the efforts of Fu Ssu-nien, the Institute’s first director.
There are over four thousand Ming(1368-1644) documents and more than three hundred thousand volumes of Ch’ing(1644-1911) archival materials in this collection, including imperial decrees, edicts, memorials, tribute document, examination questions, examination papers, rosters of successful examination candidates, documents from the offices of the Grand Secretariat, documents from the offices for book compilation, and old documents from Mukden. Memorials make up the bulk these documents.
The archives contain valuable source materials for institutional, social and economic historians. They record general administrative activities and legal cases, many of which cannot be found in Ch’ing legal compendia."

Notes: To print a document please make screen shots. In most cases it is not possible to directly print from the viewer (which only runs under Windows!).
For technical details concerning the Citrix connection, please refer to: Please read the requirements.

Description: The China Online Journals (COJ) database provides full-text access to more then 6000 academic journals published in the PRC since 1998. Up to the end of 2010 over 16 Mio. article are accessible, including those coming from over 2500 core journal. Currently articles newer then 12.2010 can not be accessed. Please refer to the CNKI ressource China Academic Journals (CAJ). Newer journals of COJ remain searchable.

The database gives full-text access to juridical material from the foundation of the PRC in 1949 ...

Description: The database gives full-text access to juridical material from the foundation of the PRC in 1949 until the present day. By 12.2010 the database included 357.426 items coming from the areas of national, administrational and regional law and regulations, but also contains international treaties as well as conventions, judicial interpretations and analysis of cases etc. The database is updated regularly (see the Wanfang data main page 首页 for latest update and number of current entries).

By 1.2011 the resource contained more than 1.2 Mio records in total. The database is updated ...

Description: By 1.2011 the resource contained more than 1.2 Mio records in total. The database is updated regularly. The interface is similar to those of the CAJ. CrossAsia currently has subscribed to the sections (F) Literature/History/Philosophy; (G) Politics/Military Affairs/Law; (H) Education & Social Sciences ; (J) Economics & Management.
The focus of the database is on individual papers published in a conference proceeding. Searching for the title of a conference in the field (会议名称) will return a list of all papers published in the respective proceeding. "Conference navigation" allows to search for name of organizing institution only (会议主办单位名称). This brings you to all papers published in their proceedings in chronological order.
Downloadable PDF also do contain one paper only excluding cover, table of contents etc. of the proceeding itself.

Cited Description: "CPCD features conference proceedings from academic institutions, industrial organizations, governmental agencies, and international bodies in China since 1999. As of August 2005, proceedings exceeded 320,000. Approximately 100,000 new proceedings are added annually."

CrossAsia has subscribed to the series Literature/History/Philosophy, Politics/ Military ...

Description: CrossAsia has subscribed to the series Literature/History/Philosophy, Politics/ Military Affairs/Law, Education & Social Sciences and Economics & Management. By 1.2011 the theses provided numbered 449.951 articles. The database is updated on a daily basis. The earliest article are from 1999.
To search the theses and dissertations at the same time, you have to use the CNKI Cross DB search search.

This cross database search allows to search the whole spectrum of CNKI databases respectively those ...

Description: This cross database search allows to search the whole spectrum of CNKI databases respectively those subscribed by CrossAsia.
You may also use this page as an entry portal to the individual CNKI databases.

Description: "Digital Culture Art Course" is based on VOD (Video-on-demand) lectures by well-known Korean scholars and specialists. The videos are structured into the eight disciplinary fields archictecture, comics, literature, cultural studies, painting, film science, musicology and philosophy. The resource is a subset of KoreaA2Z.
The database is also searchable via the E-Korean Studies portal.

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Notes: The database is also accessible via the E-Korean Studies portal.

The "Korean History & Culture Research Database" is a collection of full-texts and images from a ...

Description: The "Korean History & Culture Research Database" is a collection of full-texts and images from archaeological excavation reports of historical sites in Korea. The database also contains journals on Korean archaeology as well as research papers, reports, catalogues, and maps related to Korean geography, history, folklore, and architecture.

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Notes: The database is also accessible via the <i>E-Korean Studies</i> portal.

„RISS International is a comprehensive search engine that allows users to
1. Access the full text ...

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Cited Description: „RISS International is a comprehensive search engine that allows users to
1. Access the full text of 1,030,000 articles from journals published by major Korean scholarly associations and university research institutes, and find information on organizations that subscribe to the full text:
- Full text of 450,000 articles provided by KERIS
- Full text of 580,000 articles provided by commercial vendors
- Journal search and 133,000 records by volume and issue

2. Access to the full text of theses & dissertations:
Free access to the full text of 570,000 theses & dissertations on a complete spectrum of subjects from 160 Korean universities and of 24,000 dissertations authored by Koreans who obtained their doctoral degrees from non-Korean institutions.

The focus of the e-article database lies on publications of South Korean academic societies. ...

Description: The focus of the e-article database lies on publications of South Korean academic societies. Currently (12.2010) 390 academic societies make their scholarly journals, technical conference proceedings, research reports, independent publications etc. accessible via this electronic platform. The 561 journals etc. are usually accessible from the first issue of their appearance on. Complex full-text searches are possible and the texts are downloadable as PDF.
The database is updated monthly.

The "History Culture Series" is a multi-media content database dedicated to Korean history a ...

Description: The "History Culture Series" is a multi-media content database dedicated to Korean history and culture. It covers subjects such as archeology, Korean history, and art history. Developed for school use by professors, researchers, and museum curators, History Culture Series allows users to store and download texts and photos easily and quickly for use in the classroom. The titles “Stone Age Foragers”, “Bronze and Early Iron Age Archaeology” and "The Story of Goguryoe" are also available in English.

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Notes: The database is also accessible via the <i>E-Korean Studies</i> portal.

The Shenbao-database offers access to the most important historical newspaper in China. Shenbao ...

Description: The Shenbao-database offers access to the most important historical newspaper in China. Shenbao newspaper was first published in April 30th, 1872 in the Shanghai International Settlement. Under Ernest Major (1841-1908) as editor, Shenbao developed into the first modern newspaper in China and soon became the daily paper most read nationwide.The database covers the full run of Shenbao, from April 1872 to its cessation in May 1949.The database makes available searchable full texts and PDF-images of all issues. Advertisements are excluded from the full text. Searches can be confined to an issue or year and also to headings, captions etc.
The "old" version of this database, which provided only PDFs are also still accessible here.

LawnB is a legal information service that provides an on-line collection of South Korean legal ...

Description: LawnB is a legal information service that provides an on-line collection of South Korean legal materials including law information, judicial precedent, administration data, laywer and law firm information, etc. It indexes 50 categories such as statues, precedents, commentaries, administrative documents and statistics, academic articles, law journals, law-related news, etc.

The "Analytical System for the Complete Song Poetry" comes as a pair with the An ...

Description: The "Analytical System for the Complete Song Poetry" comes as a pair with the Analytical System for the Complete Tang Poetry. The Song poetry collection consists of 254 240 poems of altogether 9204 authors. For each poem the 平仄 structure can be displayed and identical structures searched within the fundus; for each author a short biography is provided which can also be searched separately. The database allows searches for words (using ? as a wild-card for one and * for one or more characters), authors, rhyme and rhythmic structure. Statistics can be calculated for words, phrases, rhymes etc. A detailed description can be downloaded here: song_help.pdfThe Song database relies on the "QuanSong shi" compiled and published by the Beijing University (北京大学古文献研究所 编:《全宋诗》. 北京大学出版社).

The "Analytical System for the Complete Tang Poetry" comes as a pair with the An ...

Description: The "Analytical System for the Complete Tang Poetry" comes as a pair with the Analytical System for the Complete Song Poetry. The Tang poetry collection contains 57 592 poems of 3721 authors. For each poem the 平仄 structure can be displayed and identical structures searched within the fundus; for each author a short biography is provided which can be searched separately. The database can be searched for words (using ? as a wild-card for one and * for one or more characters), authors, rhyme and rhythmic structure. Statistics can be calculated for words, phrases, rhymes etc. A detailed description for both databases can be downloaded here:tang_help.pdfThe Tang database content mainly follows Peng Dingqiu's "QuanTang shi" edition published by the Zhonghua shuju (清) 彭定求 等编:《全唐诗》. 中华书局, 1-25册).

Description: KoreaA2Z is a knowledge resources for Korean studies integrating full-text databases of primary sources, encyclopdedias, dictionaries and classics. The resource also includes for example the EncyKorea (an updated digital edition of Han’guk Minjok Munhwa Taebaekkwa Sajŏn [한국민족문화대백과사전]), the Chosŏn Wangjo Sillok [朝鮮王朝実録] and 100 different editions of the “History of the Three Kingdoms”. The resource is organized by subject and resource type.

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Notes: The database is also accessible via the <i>E-Korean Studies</i> portal

Qiushi ("Seeking truth") is the main organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the ...

Description: Qiushi ("Seeking truth") is the main organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the PRC. From late 2009 on the journal - or excerpts from the journal - also appears in English. The database gives access to the searchable full text of the English edition. PDF for download are provided.
For the original Chinese publication of Qiushi please consult the database "Chinese Academic Journals", where access to the complete set of issues back to 1994 is provided. To read older issues or even the predecessor of Qiushi namely Hongqi 红旗, CrossAsia resp. the East Asia Department of the Berlin State Library currently can only offer "paper". Hongqi (Zsn 11972) was started in 1958 and appeared until 1988 when the name was changed to Qiushi (Zsn 73611).
The search slot of the database provides selection buttons for article, image, and news. "News" searches extracts from Xinhua (starting 2011.9) and actually were not published in Qiushi; "image" search returns articles with paragraphs, where the search term and also have a picture appears. Thus the picture and the search term are in some cases not directly connected; "article" searches the full text content of the Qiushi issues 2009 to the present.
Qiushi is offered via the Sinoperi portal which also offers Beijing Review (北京周报), China Pictorial (人民画报) and People's China (人民中国). Currently CrossAsia has only also subscribed Beijing Review. Renmin huabao and Renmin zhongguo can be searched and hit lists showing bibliographical information and the respective text snippet are shown, but no download of fulltext view is possible.

Cited Description: "By selecting and translating important articles from the Chinese edition of Qiushi Journal and its affiliated publication Red Flag Manuscript, and abstracts of theoretical articles from other important Chinese periodicals, with a total of about 70,000 Chinese characters, the English edition of Qiushi Journal aims to promote the CPC and Chinese exchanges with foreign political parties and countries, and function as a platform for authoritative interpretations of the principles and strategies with which the CPC and the Chinese government run the country, as a top communication channel for publicizing China's development theory, path and model and as an important window for political and academic circles and the people of foreign countries to learn about and study Chinese affairs." (http://www.sinoperi.com/qiushi/Default.aspx)

CrossAsia has subscribed to the following series: Literature/History/Philosophy, Politics/M ...

Description: CrossAsia has subscribed to the following series: Literature/History/Philosophy, Politics/Military Affairs/Law, Education & Social Sciences and Economics & Management.
By 1.2011 the doctoral dissertation numbered 36211 items. The database is updated on a daily basis. The earliest items date from 1999. To search the theses and dissertations at the same time, please use the CNKI Cross DB search search.
(for Chinese dissertations and master theses earlier than that please refer to the "Dissertations of China" DB of Wanfang data).

Description: The database collects dissertations, masters theses and post-doc papers from PRC universities, graduate schools and research institutes. Starting with the year 1980 up to now (7.2012) about 2,3 Mio qualification works are provided in searchable full text. Facets for degree type, year and keywords allow to drill down hit lists. PDF of the whole texts are provided. Wanfang data itself names his resource the official partner of the 国家法定学位论文收藏机构.

The database includes 632 titles of statistical yearbooks (of which about 150 are constantly ...

Description: The database includes 632 titles of statistical yearbooks (of which about 150 are constantly updated) with all together 3777 volumes. They cover a wide range of industries and the whole as well as specific regions of the PRC. The earliest included datas go back to 1949. The interface currently allows browsing by industry, region or type of statistical yearbook as well as navigating the yearbooks by title of those most used or most recently updated. Data searches may be performed on the full text or confined to headings.
Hit lists and the direct use of specific yearbook titles both only allow to see parts of the a yearbook. For navigation a box with the table of content of a volume is shown on the left. Offered data formats are PDF and XLS data sheets. The button "View the book online" does NOT work, because for this a special viewer is needed (and this would mean to enclose the database for CrossAsia users into a Citrix environment).
The database further offers to generate analytic reports (Data analysis) comparing index data of specific industries for different regions within a set time frame and to find and download monthly statistics released by the national or regional Statistical Bureaus of China.

Cited Description: "China Statistical Yearbooks Database(CSYD) is a leading database of statistical data in China, which collects all important statistical yearbooks published by Mainland China presses, covering various kinds of census and survey data.
Statistical data in CSYD can quantitatively reflect the trend of national economic and social development in China, including the following industries: national economic accounting, fixed assets investment, population and human resource, livelihood and consumption, enterprises, finance, natural resources, energy and natural environment, politics & law, public administration, farmers & agriculture & rural area, industry, construction and housing, transportation, post and telecommunications, information industry, domestic and international trade, tourism & catering, education, culture and sport, medicine and health care.
According to administrative districts and some cross-province districts, local statistical yearbooks in CSYD is classified into 39 districts."

Notes: Important: The new issues of the yearbook are usually published in August/September and cover the respective periods of the previous year within their report period. Since the translation into English takes its time, it is recommended to search for the most recent and up-to-date issues on the Chinese language pages of 中国统计年鉴.To change to the Chinese page, please click on the start page – in the topmost black bar – on the left side, choosing either “simplified”- or “traditional characters edition”: [简体版 |繁體版].In the Chinese version, the green banner logo will change its color to blue. It does not suffice to change the settings in the English search screen to Chinese (CN).Be aware of Login problems: occassionally the site does not recognize our IP immediately. Check if the upper right corner of the database screen shows “staab Logout”. If not please “Login” (or first “Logout” and then “Login”) and click “IP Login” at the “User login” screen. This should work (see also this JPG). Another way to Login correctly is to go via the CNKI Knowledge Resource Integrated Database.

By 7.2012 the database contained 2415 yearbook titles in altogether 18579 volumes. The included ...

Description: By 7.2012 the database contained 2415 yearbook titles in altogether 18579 volumes. The included information partly goes back to as early as 1912 (appearing in yearbooks that were published much later!) and also the most recently published yearbooks are included.
The platform allows browsing of yearbooks by industry, region or subject as well as an elaborate interface for searches within all bibliographical and subject fields and also the full text. Searches may be confined to "pictures" but not all picture captions, especially of older yearbooks, do have full text.
No option for paging through a whole book is provided. The different sections of a yearbook can only be viewed and downloaded separately. Download format is PDF.
The yearbooks database is already partly integrated into the larger CNKI "Knowledge Resource Integrated Database", which means, that for an yearbook item the system tries to find similar items within the Chinese Academic Journal, Master theses etc. databases etc. The yearbook database is currently not included into the metasearch of CNKI (metasearch of CNKI ).

Cited Description: China Yearbooks Full-text Database (CYFD) is the largest, continuously updated yearbooks full-text database in China. It collects various type of yearbooks including national, regional, industry, enterprise yearbooks and so on. By the end of 2009, there are about 2000 titles, 12681 volumes of yearbooks and 12 million entries in all in the database.
Content Organization:
1. The database comprises 10 series and the 10 series are further divided into 168 subjects and then 3600 sub-subjects. See the subject navigation on the left.
Content Organization:
2. According to industry classification, the yearbooks are classified into 16 industries of geography/ history, politics/ military/ diplomacy, law, economics, finance, construction/ land resource, agriculture, industry, transportation/ post/ telecommunications/ information, domestic and international trade, scientific research achievements, social science research achievements, education, culture/ sport, medicine/ hygiene, character.
Content Organization:
3. According to administrative districts, local statistical yearbooks in CYFD is classified into 34 province-level districts. See the district navigation on the left.
Content Organization:
The database is updated semi-anually.

The database is a treasure trove for unexpected things. Some materials (as the 万国公报) are digitized ...

Description: The database is a treasure trove for unexpected things. Some materials (as the 万国公报) are digitized from facsimiles, sometimes the bibliographical reference is not correct, at some places links bring you to different issues or even journals. But the ressource has journals missing in the ShangTu ressource (晚清期刊、民国时期期刊).
You may switch between searches for articles (按篇检索) and searches for journals (按刊检索) and further specify the field in which you character appears (author, title etc.). Hit lists are on the article level and a click brings you to the respective page. But the whole issue will be loaded and can thus be comfortly be paged through. The viewer also allows a download in PDF format.

Description: This collection of Chinese traditional medical books assembles 255 titles with over 1600 volumes. Among them some rare prints and manuscripts. Topics cover the full spectrum of traditional Chinese medicine, i.e. therapy, diagnosis, discourses on prescriptions, surgery, womens disease, internal medicine etc. Scanned images of the originals are provided. Chapter titles and entry headings allow an easy navigation within a book and are searchable. There is no searchable full text of the books.
As all other Apabi eBooks, all titles also have a catalogue entry in the East Asia Department's OPAC.

Cited Description: Traditional Chinese medicine is the quintessence of Chinese Culture. Ancient Books of Traditional Chinese Medicine not only bear precious value as culture relic, but are high valuable in academic research and further exploitation.
"The database collects more than 200 unique copies and reliable medicine books and over 1600 volumes of ancient books of traditional Chinese medicine, which are the extract of medical experience and a record of medical science over thousands of years."

Notes: The new Apabi platform for eBooks allows access to and searches in all Apabi products via one entry page. It is fully web based, no reader has to be installed.
When using Firefox you may have still to click the IP 登录-button!

This collection of Chinese Republican Journals assembles 629 different journal titles with together ...

Description: This collection of Chinese Republican Journals assembles 629 different journal titles with together about 20.000 issues ranging from the earlist issue of the 《小孩月报》in 1876 up to latest issue of the 《当代日报》published 1954. Article titles and authors can be searched, there is no full text available. Clicking an article title brings you to the respective page within the context of the whole issue. On the left hand side provides the table of content of the issue. It is not possible to print or download pages, article or issues. Currently you have to rely on screen shots.
As all other Apabi resources, Apabi journal titles will also have a catalogue entry in the EAD OPAC.

Notes: The new Apabi platform for eBooks allows access to and searches in all Apabi products via one entry page. It is fully web based, no reader has to be installed. For the reader to load a journal, you will sometimes have to be patient. Try also to "reload" the reader page which sometimes speeds up the process.

This fulltext-database offers access to all issues of the Renmin Ribao from its earliest appearance ...

Description: This fulltext-database offers access to all issues of the Renmin Ribao from its earliest appearance in 1946 on up to the present. The latest year will be available only in the following year (for the latest issues please refer to the Apabi resource "China newspapers full-text database"
You may also use this access: erf.sbb.spk-berlin.de/han/renminica/ which is a terminal connection (see our "Technische Hinweise")
All issues are fulltext searchable and PDFs of the original are provided up to next to last year. For the newest issues please refer to the Apabi Newspaper Portal (http://erf.sbb.spk-berlin.de:80/han/apabinewspaperneu).

The full text page of each article also provides a bibliographical reference to the respective article including a URL. But please be aware that the database is a commercial product, so only people within an IP-range subscribed to the database will be able to successfully use the link. In case you want to provide the CrossAsia-Link (only accessible to registered CrossAsia users) you have to add our proxy-address (http://erf.sbb.spk-berlin.de/han/RenminRibao1/) to the URL named in the reference (for example: rmrb.egreenapple.com:80/detail?record=16&ChannelID=16380&randno=4940&resultid=70).

Description: The CETD (Chinese Electronic Theses and Dissertations Service) collects dissertations and theses of all main Taiwan universities and research institutions but also some from abroad (a full list is shown under 校院瀏覽. The "service" startet in 2005 with the aim to collect all dissertations and master theses "from both coasts and all four Chinese regions" (兩岸四地) at one plattform. While most of the dissertations are written in Chinese and derive from Taiwanese institutions, the database also provides quite a number written in English.
Currently the database allows searches over the titles, abstracts, table of contents, bibliographies, adviser's names etc. of about 114 000 dissertations and theses; about 80 000 of them are accessible as full text PDF (marked in the hits with a text icon).
The full text of the PDFs themselves are not searched via the CETD interface, but the PDFs can be searched and printed after download.

Access to the collection of subscribed Apabi E-Books mainly in the field of modern literature. ...

Description: Access to the collection of subscribed Apabi E-Books mainly in the field of modern literature. Parallel to the literature collection (电子书) the Apabi eBook collection also contains a selection of Law books, Minguo qikan and Traditional Medicine. Apapbi Yearbooks, Newspapers and Reference books constitute the other collections accessible via the new integrated platform.
The new Apabi platform is completely web-based, no Apabi Reader has to be installed.

The collection gives access to about 10.000 official PRC law & regulation books published between ...

Description: The collection gives access to about 10.000 official PRC law & regulation books published between 1988 and 2005. The collection is part of the Apabi 电子图书 section and is accessible via their new web-based platform. All titles of this sub-collection can also be found in the EAD electronic catalogue (crossasia.stabikat.de) under EBooks (note: each catalogue has three different links. There two CrossAsia links, starting with ERF). The "ceb-apabi"-link brings you to the "old" Apabi reader version of the platform, the "apabilawneu" to the new web-based platform).

The interface gives access to the early period of Chinese periodical publishing covering the time ...

Description: The interface gives access to the early period of Chinese periodical publishing covering the time from the late Qing up to the end of the Republican period, that is from 1833 to 1949 (please select "modern periodicals" 近代期刊). Divided into two main parts and further subdivided into several batches the database will finally include more the 20,000 journals and more then 15 mio. articles. The material and expertise the project relies on is that of the Shanghai tushuguan and can be seen as a kind of "full text" extension of their Quanguo baokan suoyin 全国报刊索引, available via the same interface.
While the first main part on the Late Qing, the 晚清期刊全文数据库 (1833-1911), is already completed, of the second part on the Republican period, 民国时期期刊全文数据库 (1911-1949), the first three batches have appeared, further two batches are expected for 2012.
Currently access to the 302 different journal titles of the Late Qing part and the first three batches of the Republican period part with more than 3500 journal titles are accessible. Further batches will follow.
The search interface allows users to search by article title, author, journal title, date, etc. and to view and download the respective article as scanned image pages embedded in a PDF.
Under 期刊导航 (Browse by Journal) a short description of the publication history and content of each subscribed journal is given as well as the possiblity to get an overview of the issues published and the articles in each issue. Journals that appear in grey are not accessible resp. not subscribed. On the left hand side browsing via subject category is possible. By choosing 晚清期刊 or 民国时期期刊 from the 数据库 pull down menu one may confine the hit list to the respective database.
Note: what is labeled as 全文 (full text) in the database actually means 'complete text'. There is no searchable full text of the articles themselves.

The resource gives access to hundreds of newspapers, magazines, government and company informations ...

Description: The resource gives access to hundreds of newspapers, magazines, government and company informations etc. from Taiwan, Mainland China, Hongkong and Macao and some "other countries".
Via WiseSearch users may search by combined keywords, confine their searches to a specific time range (the maximum time range is 5 years), to headlines or full text as well as to specific sources resp. publication titles selectable under "Search Options" in the lower half of the screen. There also a short "info" of each resource can be found. By double clicking a publication title you may also exclude specific sources.
Hit lists can be further "refined" and/or "filtered by source".
Full texts can be viewed online, downloaded or printed and you may first collect them in a TempFolder and then download the whole package to your local computer.
The current CrossAsia subscription starts with the year 1998 and does not include the image and video package.
A detailed English userguide is provided via the menue on the bottom of the WiseSearch web page. Here you can download a list of all available resources in WiseSearch.
WiseSearch does not allow to view a specific issue of a resource page by page or article by article. You may confine your search to a specific newspaper under "Search options" (for example by chosing "Mainland China > Newspaper > China Daily") and then to a specific year or month. But you still have to enter a keyword and thus may miss an article (search for "and" or "和" by adding quotation marks). Supposing a search for "and" is actually complete, the references of the hits give the publication date (not the number of the issue!) and in most cases also name the column where the article appeared. They do not name the page number.
A click on the resource title in a hit list or an article reference selects all articles of the respective resource but only those of the most recent month.
WiseSearch is mainly meant to provide you with an up to date newsstand of hundreds of Greater Chinas information resources.

Cited Description: "WiseSearch offers the world's largest Chinese and English language database of published information from Greater China. ... WiseSearch is a powerful search engine which allows you to search all news information from hundreds of media sources in Wisers’ high-capacity archive. With our latest search functions and indexing technology, news article search is made more accurate and efficient over the Internet.
...
You may input either English or Chinese keyword(s) to retrieve various news archive from our daily updated database built up from over 900 sources (as of Aug 2010). Use alphabetical connectors “and”, “or”, “not”, or symbolic connectors “+”, “/”, “-” to build sophisticated search strings for more targeted results. Check the box “Search with similar words” then bilingual terms (in English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese), abbreviations, and acronyms will be automatically added to your keyword search string."

The collection gives access to a broad selection of Chinese dictionaries, thesauruses, ...

Description: The collection gives access to a broad selection of Chinese dictionaries, thesauruses, encyclopedias etc. including 中国大百科全书， 汉语大词典，辞海 and numerous smaller and specialized reference books. Searches can be performed on the fulltext or confined to head entries, and further filtered by kind or subject group of reference book type. Individual titles can be browsed, read and searched individually and scans of the original pages are provided. The 1710 reference book titles of the ressource are also included in our OPAC (crossasia.stabikat.de).
The Apabi reference book collection was moved to the new platform. Content and functions etc. of the ressource has not changed. For those who prefer to use the "old" entry page, please follow this LINK.
Registered CrossAsia users who want to take advantage of the functions provided by the Apabi Reader should use the terminal server connection to China reference books. Please note, that to do so Java runtime 1.5 is needed! Read the requirements. To read the reference books the Citrix-server you get connected to will provide an Internet Explorer and the Apabi reader which is necessary to download and read the newspapers. A help file is provided:
http://dlib.apabi.com
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This resource in an important addition to the Apabi Reference Books Collection (工具 ...

Description: This resource in an important addition to the Apabi Reference Books Collection (工具書). CNKI offers an advanced modus for filtering the search hits according to type of dictionary, subject etc. Moreover, a number of important reference works are included here, that are not available in the Apabi collection. The CrossAsia subscription follows the frame set by the "Sondersammelgebiet 6.25". Thus only the fields F, G, H, and J have been subscribed. The same applies to the Yearbooks, Statistical Yearbooks, Proceedings and Master theses and Dissertations. Only in CAJ the CrossAsia subscription covers the whole range of fields.

Cited Description: "CRWO is an authoritative, comprehensive and continuously updated encyclopedia database. It collects 4000 reference works from over 200 China leading publishers, including dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauruses, cyclopedias, illustrated books, table spectrum, biography, quotations, handbooks ,and so on, covering over 15 million entries and 700 thousand images. The content covers such subjects as philosophy, art, social science, culture, education, natural science, engineering, medicine, which are all written by expert. (...) CRWO is a digitalized integration from traditional reference works, including 10 series and 168 subjects. CRWO provides a powerful full-text searching system, allowing users to obtain all the relevant knowledge information in different books on one platform, thus it is a significant breakthrough in the limit of the traditional searching."

Notes: Currently not all filtering features of the database work properly. The problem is on our side and we are working on it!

The United Daily newspaper 聯合報 is one of the three biggest Taiwanese newspapers. It was established ...

Description: The United Daily newspaper 聯合報 is one of the three biggest Taiwanese newspapers. It was established in September 1951, and up to now more than 4,7 mio. issues have been published. Its political orientation is conservative. United Daily News Group moreover established a number of other newspaper: those are - the 經濟日報 Economic daily in 1967, - the more popular paper 民生報 Min Sheng News in 1978, - the Star News 星報 in 1999, - the United Night News in 1988 and finally - in 2007 the Upaper a daily periodical focussing on a young, female and white collar worker readership. The group also runs two newspapers published in Chinese abroad, i.e. - the 世界日報 World Journal published in the US and - the 歐洲日報 Europe Journal, both started in 2000. The whole run of all named newspapers are accessible via the UDN knowledge base. All newspapers except the Star News and the Min Sheng still exist today. The system allows full text, title, author etc. searches in a specific paper, in a specific time range asf. and also provides a separate database containing all press pictures of these publications (影像圖庫). When an article contains a photograph, you will find a link labelled 顯示本則新聞照片 on the right hand side. The interface can be switched between traditional and simplified characters.No images of the original paper are provided, but the correct reference link to an article is given in brackets at the end of each article. Downloads have to be done by copy-paste; to print an article a printer friendly view is offered.A short English outline of the platform is available here in PDF , a more detailed introduction in Chinese is available here as an PPT.

Description: Wanfang data's New Local Gazetteers database gives access to currently (10.2011) 10.931 titles falling into the greater genre of local monographs published in the PRC since 1949. It contains not only the local gazetteers of the different provinces, districts, counties and cities but also special monographs on, for example, the food industry or traffic administration of a certain area, as well as treatises on regional toponyms or famous persons.
Local gazetteers are mostly officially sponsored and initiated and follow certain compilation rules. But they contain valuable details and accounts on larger and smaller administrative units of the PRC and thus provide important source materials for studying modern and contemporary China.
The database may be searched by region, topic, resource type etc. and also by full text (which was done with OCR). Hit lists may be further drilled down by facets. A PDF of the smallest unit a hit belongs to is provided for reference and download. Together these units amount to more than 3,3 mio. No PDF of the whole title is offered.

You may browse the periodical by year and issue or search full text with the option of confining ...

Description: You may browse the periodical by year and issue or search full text with the option of confining your search to a certain issue, year or time range.
The hit list shows snippets, when opened the scanned image of the original page is shown in PDF format, the search term is highlighted und you may copy-paste passages of the text. While the database always opens one whole issue, printing and downloading is confined to the page that is currently shown. The downloaded PDF files stays full text searchable.
The full text also includes the adversitements etc., but all was done by OCR and obviously was not proof read, so your search will always miss hits.

Please note that this database will be integrated into the JapanKnowledge website from 1 October ...

Description: Please note that this database will be integrated into the JapanKnowledge website from 1 October 2014!
Web版 日本近代文学館 provides a complete archive (PDF) of the journal Taiyô (太陽) which was published by Hakubunkan (博文官) from January Meiji 28 (1895) until February Shôwa 3 (1928) in 34 volumes with 531 issues. It was one of the leading general-interest magazines of the Meiji and Taishô period with articles on a large variety of topics such as politics, society, literature, science, geography, history, art, industry etc. Especially its literary column became of great influence for the promotion of the naturalist movement in Japan.
In addition the following three indexes can be searched, however the PDFs of the articles/manuscripts are not available, as they are not included in the licence:
The journal Bungei kurabu (文芸倶楽部) published by Hakubunkan (博文官) from January Meiji 28 (1895) until December Taishô 1 (1912) in 18 volumes with 284 issues. A literary journal that also comprises articles on art, fashion and customs.
The student journal Daiichi kôtô gakkô kôyûkai zasshi (第一高等学校 校友会雑誌) that was published from November Meiji 23 (1890) until June Shôwa 19 (1944) at the Daiichi kôtô gakkô in Tôkyô which contains many articles on literature and art as well as early literary works of various writers.
The archive Takita Choin kyûzô kindai sakka genkôshû (滝田樗陰旧蔵近代作家原稿集) which contains 230 literary works from the collection of Takita Choin, a former publisher of the journal Chûô kôron (中央公論). 209 of these works were later published in Chûô kôron. The biographies of the authors can be accessed.

The database, edited by the 中国社科院边疆史地研究院 （the former 边疆史地中心）, provides access to documents from the ...

Description: The database, edited by the 中国社科院边疆史地研究院 （the former 边疆史地中心）, provides access to documents from the large central libraries in China as well as academic institutions from China’s borderland regions relating to the history and geography of these regions. It contains rare local gazetteers, book collections (congshu), rare journals, official reports, archive material, letters, diaries, travel reports, telegrams etc. The all in all 407.364 documents are arranged in the following ten sub databases:
边疆民族资料及研究数据库
边疆界务资料数据库
边疆行政建制资料数据库
边疆民族地区期刊资料数据库
中国边疆方志资料数据库
东北边疆史地文献及研究数据库
北部边疆史地文献及研究数据库
西北边疆史地文献及研究数据库
海疆史地文献及研究数据库
西南边疆史地文献及研究数据库
The database gives access to view all the documents. Full text access is coming soon. The database allows simple and advanced searches.

This collection assembles 370 volumes of Imperial examinations records stored in and published as ...

Description: This collection assembles 370 volumes of Imperial examinations records stored in and published as print editions by the Tianyige Museum in the years 2006, 2007, and resp. 2010. Among them are 56 volumes of Records of Palace Examinations (登科录) from the years 1371 till 1460, 39 volumes of Records of Metropolitan Examinations (会试录) from the years 1430 till 1580, and 275 volumes of Records of Provincial Examinations (乡试录) from the years 1486 till 1510. Scanned images of the originals are provided. There is no searchable full text of the books. As all other Apabi eBooks, all records will also have a catalogue entry in our OPAC.

The CADAL platform uses "digital lending" as a way to give access to materials that are under ...

Description: The CADAL platform uses "digital lending" as a way to give access to materials that are under copyright protection. So users coming via CrossAsia still also have to also register and later log in individually with the CADAL site. But as CrossAsia and the State Library Berlin are a cooperation partners of Zhejing university and CADAL, users with a CrossAsia or State Library authentification will have access to the whole range of 1.5 mio digital objects offered, including Modern titles (Chinese and some English) and Republican periodicals.
Please use the English page version for registration, because you there find "Germany" and "CrossAsia" as country and institution for you profile.
"Digital lending" means that you in modern and republican books you will from time to time encounter a page with a 借阅 button. CLicking it you will then "borrow" this section. In case someone else has borrowed it, you will have to ask him to "re-borrow" 转借 it to you.
A detailed help file is available on the CADAL webpage resp. here: http://www.cadal.zju.edu.cn/User_manual.htm.

This database on Japanese law is divided into several parts that offer detailed information and ...

Description: This database on Japanese law is divided into several parts that offer detailed information and fulltexts concerning law, court decisions, secondary literature on law topics, law journals etc. For descriptions of the contents, please follow this LINK

The database provider has supplied detailed user information, the so called "Quick Guide". Please follow this LINK to obtain the PDF file.

Please do not forget to use the proper "logout button" for closing the database. Otherwise access is not possible for other users until the automatic timeout after 30 minutes.

The NCL platform "Rare Books & Special Collections" (古籍與特藏文獻資源) provides access to the following ...

Description: The NCL platform "Rare Books & Special Collections" (古籍與特藏文獻資源) provides access to the following databases:
"Union Catalogue of Rare Books Database" (中文古籍書目資料庫),
"Rare Book Digital Image Search System" (古籍影像檢索系統),
"Taiwan Family Genealogy Union Catalogue" (台灣地區家譜聯合目錄), and
"Bronze & Stone & Rubbing Database" (金石拓片資料庫).
The "Union Catalog of Rare Books Database" imports metadata of Chinese rare books from libraries all over the world. A list of current data providers and number of titles imported can be accessed here: http://rbook2.ncl.edu.tw/Search/Participate/2.
The large numbers of titles/exemplars result from the fact that not only pre-1912 Chinese books are included, but also facsimile reprints of these books. Unfortunately it is not possible to exclude these facsimiles editions. Moreover, each exemplar of a title has its own database entry. Thus identical editions appear several times.
The "Rare Book Digital Image Search System" only includes digital images of selected data providers. At the moment access to the digital images is partly restricted.

Cited Description: In 1998, the NCL published the Taiwan Area Rare Books Union Catalog, providing a record of rare books and general string-bound works in public collections in Taiwan. This publication has been expanded to include rare books in mainland, Hong Kong, Macao, Australian, and other overseas collections. Titled the Chinese Rare Book Catalog, it currently comprises over 630,758 bibliographies.
This database includes rare book bibliographies in Metadata format and presented in several core bibliographic field. Users can search for materials through 14 search values and both traditional and simplified search interfaces. Search results can be presented in detailed or summarized form. Moreover, to provide readers with access to a broader selection of rare books, the database allows for linked searches of rare books in mainland Chinese, Japanese, U.S., and Europe collections.
The database accepts material in CMARC, CNMARC and USMARC formats to facilitate the search, display, uploading, and maintenance of information. In future, the system will be made compatible with international standard metadata bibliographic information export functions to facilitate exchange.

Notes: Click 進階查詢 to access more detailed metadata and the advanced search mode of the platform!

Brill online has started to offer a selection of their printed reference work titles, ...

Description: Brill online has started to offer a selection of their printed reference work titles, bibliographies and text & commentaries volumes via an online platform and in searchable full text. Chinese Research Perspectives with all its six thematic volumes (Economy, Education, Environment, Law, Population and Labor, and Society) is one ressource now available via this platform.
Full text searches include all titles currently offered via the platform, but only for subscribed titles a full view is offered. Of all others only snippets from the actual entries are shown.

Cited Description: "The former Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Yearbooks have become part of the Chinese Research Perspectives series. As before the focus is on the six research areas: Economy, Education, Environment, Law, Population and Labor, and Society. The selection of contributions covers developments in China of particular interest to a Western (non-Chinese speaking) audience and occasionally differs from the Chinese-language yearbooks. The selected materials continue to provide Western readers with firsthand insights into the discussions of China’s top scholars on contemporary issues in their country."

Maisaku is the online version of the Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shinbun. It consists of several ...

Description: Maisaku is the online version of the Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shinbun. It consists of several functions:

Simple search:
Combined search by keyword and date in the Mainichi Shinbun and the journal Shûkan Ekonomisuto.

Detailed search:
Mainichi Shinbun kiji kensaku: search for articles of the Mainichi Shinbun by keyword and date. For the years 1987-today a real full text search is provided. For the years 1872-1986 only the headings of important articles are indexed. Not all articles are included in the database (e.g. Sumô results, TV programme, cartoons etc. are excluded).

The "Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center" offers a wide range of Tibetan literature from all spheres ...

Description: The "Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center" offers a wide range of Tibetan literature from all spheres of life – traditional medicine, astrology, astronomy, alchemy, art, history, geography, biography, grammar, folk culture, poetics, and so on. Most of the works, however, are religious in character as they comprise traditional Tibetan Buddhist scriptures stretching back over a period of more than 1.300 years. At present, the database offers about 4.000 works in more than 10.000 volumes accessible as PDF files representing scans from manuscripts, blockprints, and books or editions published mainly from India and China. The material can be searched by title, author, subjects, places and a number of other aspects (click "Search By" at the top right).
Founded by Gene Smith in 1999, it is the mission of the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center to preserve, organize and disseminate Tibetan works by using the latest digital technologies in order to ensure that "the treasures of this incredible body of literature will never be lost".
For an introduction to the project and its mission please see here.
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The database covers articles relating to the fields of politics, economy, society and others ...

Description: The database covers articles relating to the fields of politics, economy, society and others published in the Okinawa Times since 1997. It consists of full-text text-only files (approximately 800.000). Unfortunately there are no PDF versions of the original articles, photographs or any other graphic elements. Special issues have also been included.

For some articles on accidents or incidents only the headings have been included. The providing company refers to it as「事件・事故関連の一部など非公開の記事は見出しのみ収録」.

New Nonmun provides access to full-text articles of more than 150 journals in the fields of social ...

Description: New Nonmun provides access to full-text articles of more than 150 journals in the fields of social sciences, education, special and early childhood education, psychology, social welfare sciences, humanities etc.
The articles are available for download in PDF format.

Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the ...

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Cited Description: Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. Since 1995 the MUSE journal collections have supported a wide array of research needs at academic, public, special, and school libraries worldwide. MUSE is the trusted source of complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies, with over 120 publishers currently participating.

The database gives access to 1965 newspapers - on the day they are published, and 90 days ...

Description: The database gives access to 1965 newspapers - on the day they are published, and 90 days retrospectively - from 87 countries in 42 languages. For the region East Asia and South East Asia these are 14 newspapers from China (11 in English, 3 in Chinese), 1 newspaper from Taiwan (The China Post), 7 newspapers from Hong Kong (6 in English, 1 in Chinese), 6 newspapers from Japan (4 in English, 2 in Japanese), 11 newspapers from South Korea (6 in English, 5 in Korean), 5 newspapers from Vietnam (3 in English, 1 in French, 1 in Vietnamese), 2 newspapers (only) in English from Cambodia, 14 from Thailand (11 in English, 2 in Tai, 1 in German), and 20 newspapers from Malaysia (10 in English, 6 in Malay, 4 in Chinese). The database may be searched by country, by language, or alphabetically by the newspapers title in the time ranges today, last 3 days, this week, this month, or anytime (which means the last 90 days).

Please note that this database will be integrated into the JapanKnowledge website from 1 October ...

Description: Please note that this database will be integrated into the JapanKnowledge website from 1 October 2014!
Fûzoku Gahô was the first illustrated journal in Japan published from 1889 until 1916. The database contains all 518 numbers of this journal as PDF. The articles can be searched by author, title of the article or number of the volume. There is no full-text search. The journal covers a wide range of subjects from the Edo, Meiji and Taishô period such as literature, customs, history, war, disasters, geography (local guide books) etc.

This DVD database contains manuscripts and printed pre-modern books that belonged originally to the ...

Description: This DVD database contains manuscripts and printed pre-modern books that belonged originally to the temple Zôfukuin on Mount Kôya and that are now held in the Kôyasan Daigaku Fuzoku Kôyasan Toshokan. The full set of the DVDs comprises 12 discs, but only disc No. 3 is licensed for CrossAsia. The contents of disc No. 3 are listed in the database, as well as in the PDF document under this LINK. Please note that this is an RDP terminal connection.

The database gives access to the following 21 historical newspapers:
The Canton Times ...

Description: The database gives access to the following 21 historical newspapers:
The Canton Times (1919-1920),
The China Critic (1939-1946),
China Monthly Review (1950-1953),
The China Press (1925-1938),
The China Weekly Review (1923-1950),
The Chinese Recorder (1912-1938),
The Chinese Recorder and Educational Review (1939-1941),
The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal (1868-1912),
The Chinese Repository (1832-1851),
Millard's China National Review (1919-1919),
Millard's Review of the Far East (1917-1919, 1919-1921),
The North - China Herald (1850-1867),
The North - China Herald and Market Report (1867-1869),
The North - China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette (1870-1941),
Peking Daily News (1914-1917),
Peking Gazette (1915-1917),
The Peking Leader (1918-1919),
The Shanghai Gazette (1919-1921),
The Shanghai Times (1914-1921),
The Weekly Review (1922-1923),
and,
The Weekly Review of the Far East (1921-1922).
The database allows basic search, advanced search, and search for obituaries. It may be searched by 25 different document types like Article, Banner, Birth notice, and so on. The newspaper content is available for download in Full text PDF format.

Cited Description: This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

The licence includes the "Asian Studies E-Book Collections" of the publishing house Brill since the ...

Description: The licence includes the "Asian Studies E-Book Collections" of the publishing house Brill since the publication year 2013 and provides access to the archive including publication years 2007-2012. However the whole range of Brill e-book collections can be searched which might be helpful to locate other relevant titles. The Asian studies collections include a large variety of subjects and deal with various Asian countries. The titles can also be found via the general catalogue Stabikat and the xAsia search.

The China Monographic Series Full-text Database (CMSD) is a database for China Monographic Series ...

Description: The China Monographic Series Full-text Database (CMSD) is a database for China Monographic Series published since 1979 regularly or irregularly by academic institutions in the PRC. By February 2013 the resource contained 327 kinds of such series and about 118,410 full-text articles. The database is updated on a daily basis. The interface is similar to those of the CAJ. CrossAsia currently has subscribed all the 10 Series databases: Mathematics/Physics/Mechanics/Astronomy; Chemistry/Metallurgy/Environment/Mine Industry; Architecture/Energy/Traffic/Electromechanics, etc; Agriculture; Medicine & Public Health; Literature/History/Philosophy; Politics/Military Affairs/Law; Education & Social Science; Electronic Technology & Information Science; Economics & Management.

The database 中國方志庫 (= Database of Chinese Local Records) contains 2.000 geographical works from Han ...

Description: The database 中國方志庫 (= Database of Chinese Local Records) contains 2.000 geographical works from Han dynasty to the Republican Era. Among them are comprehensive gazetteers like 全國地理總志 and 一統志, local gazetteers of different political levels like 省通志, 府州志 and 縣志, such of the genres of physical and political geography like 山川志, 都城志, 邊防志, and so on. The interface is similar to that of the Chinese Ancient Books (基本古籍庫) and Database of Chinese genealogy (中國譜牒庫) but is web-based. Digitized text and scanned imagesof the transcribed original are both provided and displayed in parallel. If you want to leave the database, please log out in the end using the upper right button.

The database 中國類書庫 contains 800 encyclopedias from Wei/Jin dynasty to the Republican Era of the two ...

Description: The database 中國類書庫 contains 800 encyclopedias from Wei/Jin dynasty to the Republican Era of the two kinds 通類, and 專類. Among them are the works like《皇覽》,《古今圖書集成》, and 《永樂大典》. The interface is similar to that of the Chinese Ancient Books (基本古籍庫) and Database of Chinese genealogy (中國譜牒庫). Digitized text and scanned images of the transcribed original are both provided. If you want to leave the database, please log out in the end using the upper right button.

Web OYA-bunko is a bibliographic database of Japanese journal articles. It consists of about ...

Description: Web OYA-bunko is a bibliographic database of Japanese journal articles. It consists of about 3.700.000 entries taken from more than 1400 journal titles since the publication year 1988. About 400 journal titles are currently still running publications. An additional 1.000.000 entries from before 1988 are searchable through the "mokuroku kensaku" (目録検索). Although the database also contains articles from the Meiji period (1868-1912) the focus is on contemporary data. For detailed information about the journals incorporated in the database please see the homepage of the provider. The database offers a simple and an advanced search. In addition a very detailed classification makes a precise topical search possible.

Important! Please end your session properly by using the provided "logout" button. To close the internet browser does not end the session and results in an unnecessary blockage of the access to this database.

Important! The delivery service link (複写申込書表示) provided in the database is not included in the licence. Articles ordered via this service have to be paid by each individual user. For obtaining the articles please use your nearby library or the order form of the Blue ILL.

Web OYA-bunko is based on the collection of periodicals owned by the critic and journalist Ôya Sôichi (1900-1970). His personal library was turned into a public library after his death. Originally a bibliographical index published as book and later as CD-ROM were used to catalogue the articles. The online follow up of the index is Web OYA-bunko.

In June 2016 the database moved to a new web based platform, called CDMNext, with new ...

Description: In June 2016 the database moved to a new web based platform, called CDMNext, with new functionalities such as data processing, analysis, transformation, and export. For the new fuctionalities, please consult the CDMNext Start Guide (PDF). Registered users can install the CDMNext Excel add-in, which allows users to download series to Excel, apply formulas to them and refresh the data to get the latest update directly in Excel. The add-in can be downloaded from the "view and edit profile information" tab in the right upper corner, once logged in as registered user. For more information please consulte the CDMNext Add-in Start Guide (PDF).

Cited Description: CEIC Data’s Global Database contains over a million time series covering economies from the US and China to Vietnam, Bulgaria, and Chile. It covers key indicators such as GDP, GNP, FDI, and CPI as well as detailed, hard to find information on inflation, exports, and tourism. Built on the expertise of professionals on the ground in numerous emerging countries, CEIC Data offers users exclusive access to a knowledge store that will enable them to make only the smartest and most accurate assessments and decisions.
The China Premium Database offers over 293,000 time-series records on macroeconomic, sector, industry and regional data dating back to 1949. The China Premium Database is available in both English and Chinese.

Description: Needs Financial Quest (NFQ) contains comprehensive data on Japanese companies. Please read this information before using the database!
When using data from Nikkei Financial Quest in publications, please do not forget to give the source and copyright notice. The database provider gave the following information:
Source: Nikkei NEEDS
Copyright: Nikkei Europe and Nikkei Japan
The database provider has supplied a user manual, the so called "NEEDS-FinancialQuest 2.0 Operation Guide". Please follow this LINK to obtain the PDF file.
The database provider also emphasized to use the correct system setting (decimal setting) otherwise some of the output data can be faulty without the right setting. Please follow this LINK to obtain more information on the correct setting.
When you start the database via CrossAsia probably several security advices will appear. Please ignore them and continue until the blue RDP window (remote desktop protocol) appears. Once the first window of the database with the diver appears, please wait a moment until the second window with the search screen appears. You will find the small login window on the upper right hand side. Please click on “Login” to start the database.
Once the database has started, the words “corporate information” will appear in the left field. Please open this pull-down menu and select the segment you need. Please follow the instructions on the screen to conduct your search or read the information in the “help” section.
You can download your search result as an excel file via the CrossAsia campus. When you click on “download” a new window appears with the excel file. Please click on “save” and a new window will open.
Please choose “computer” (not: “desktop”), scroll down until you find “Netzwerkpfad”, there you can see your CrossAsia campus drive. Select your CrossAsia campus drive and save the excel file with any file name you like. After finishing your search you can download the excel file from your CrossAsia campus drive.
Content: NFQ contains data back until 1970 of companies from the indexes Nikkei 225, 300 and 500. The data is based on the regular reports of the companies (Yuhô/Tanshin), as well as on interviews conducted by Nikkei. Single companies or whole industrial sectors can be compared. The whole database is provided in English.

The English-language Japan Chronicle Weekly (1902–1940) is the newspaper of record for Japan’s ...

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Cited Description: The English-language Japan Chronicle Weekly (1902–1940) is the newspaper of record for Japan’s engagement with modernity and its emergence, through war, political and social upheaval and seismic social change in East Asia, onto the world stage in the first half of the twentieth century.
Founded and based in Kobe, a port city that saw enormous expansion during the Chronicle’s lifetime, and edited by representative figures in this treaty port, the Chronicle provides a unique perspective not only on the settler communities in Japan and East Asia but also to the historical development of East Asia as it happened.
Historians of East Asia have long seen the Japan Chronicle as a uniquely valuable resource. This well-informed, controversial but always readable source of news and opinion on Japan and East Asia offers an intriguing and lively Japanese complement to the North-China Herald, available in the East Asia Archive Online since 2011.

The Chinese Students’ Monthly was the first magazine that was published by Chinese students in the ...

Description: The Chinese Students’ Monthly was the first magazine that was published by Chinese students in the United States from 1906 to 1931. It became the official organ of the enlarged Chinese student organization, counting many important and well-known figures amongst its contributors. The Monthly covered such important fields as education, as well as the social, industrial, agricultural, political, and economical areas which were of importance during this period..
The full-text database is searchable via the query mask "Search Primary Sources," above the explanations for the database. Search hits can be narrowed down by using the filter function on the left margin of the screen. Search words or text passages can be read on the scan of the original page. The respective search term is highlighted in colour. There is, however, no print function for single pages.

Cited Description: The Chinese Students’ Monthly is the first magazine published by Chinese students in the United States from 1906-1931. This publication became the official organ of the enlarged Chinese student organization: The Chinese Students’ Alliance in the U.S. Many important historical figures among Chinese students in the U.S.during the early 20th century, such as Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Wellington Koo, Hu Shi, Chao Yuanren, Xie Bingxin, contributed their articles to this magazine. The magazine was a most influential publication among the Chinese students in the U.S. at that time. The overseas Chinese has been an emerging area of scholarly research.
This magazine includes valuable information for scholars in this particular field. During its publication, the periodical discussed important movements in China during that period of time: education, social, industrial, agricultural, political, and economical, etc. In addition, the period (1906-1931) during which the magazine was published happened to be an important turning period for modern Chinese history.
The Chinese Students' Monthly Online, a full-text searchable online product, makes this primary source available to scholars and interested readers on modern China.
This online product is a result of collaboration between Cornell University Library and Brill. It is, to the best of our knowledge, the most comprehensive collection of the magazine so far. This online collection of The Chinese Students’ Monthly includes 25 volumes from Volume 2 to Volume 26 as we have not found any reference on Volume 1. In addition, we were not able to get a copy of Issue 8 in Volume 12, Issues 3, 4, 5 and 6 in Volume 17, Issues 7 and 8 in Volume 25 and Issues 2, 3, 4, 7, and 8 in Volume 26. If any individual or library has a copy of any of these issues, either on paper or microfilm or any format, please let us know so that we could make this collection more complete.

Collection of files held by The NationalArchives, Kew, the official archive of the United Kingdom. ...

Description: Collection of files held by The NationalArchives, Kew, the official archive of the United Kingdom. It containsdiplomatic correspondence, letters, reports, surveys, material from newspapers,statistical analyses, published pamphlets, ephemera, military papers, profilesof prominent individuals, maps and many other types of document. Full-textsearch is available across all documents.
The collection is divided into the sixparts:
1919-1929:Kuomintang, CCP and the Third International
1930-1937:The Long March, civil war in China and the Manchurian Crisis
1938-1948:Open Door, Japanese war and the seeds of communist victory
1949-1956:The Communist revolution
1957-1966:The Great Leap Forward
1967-1980: TheCultural Revolution

Access to 3,3 million Chinese bibliographic entries and 2,4 million full text resources such as ...

Description: Access to 3,3 million Chinese bibliographic entries and 2,4 million full text resources such as books, journal articles, conference papers and video clips. Duxiu covers Chinese publications from the early the 1930s to the present.
There are two search modes in Duxiu: 1. 图书 which allows searches in the books metadata (title, author, abstract etc.) and chapter heading, and 2. 知识 which searches the full texts. Full text hits show a snippet of the text piece with the search term and allow access to a few pages of the title (阅读部分). The book titles under 图书 labeled with 包库全文 can be read in full online and you can order a download link. The link will be sent to your email inbox, the page number for each link is limited to 50 pages (following the same download logic as Chinamaxx).
(note: of 图书 titles labeled with 馆藏纸本 the Berlin State Library owns a paper copy)

The South China Morning Post (SCMP) 南华早报 is a newspaper in English from Hong Kong. It has a ...

Description: The South China Morning Post (SCMP) 南华早报 is a newspaper in English from Hong Kong. It has a circulation of 104,000. It was founded by Tse Tsan-tai and Alfred Cunningham in 1903. The first edition was published on 6 November 1903.

Cited Description: This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

The Japan Times Archives Online Edition is an internet based online newspaper article service ...

Description: The Japan Times Archives Online Edition is an internet based online newspaper article service created and provided by The Japan Times Ltd. It covers the entire publication period starting 22 March 1897 up until 31 December of the year before last year. Last years articles can be found in the archive of "The Japan Times Online" website and are moved into "The Japan Times Archives" all together usually once a year. The database consists of scans of the original newspaper pages, which have been OCR-processed. The full-text-search is based on the OCR results. Entire pages or self-chosen cuttings of articles can be printed.

The Japan Times Online is the online version of the Japan Times newspaper. The website offers a ...

Description: The Japan Times Online is the online version of the Japan Times newspaper. The website offers a full-text-search and an archive function for the current and the last year. Earlier numbers have been moved to the Japan Times Archives website. Articles can be printed.

Description: The Chinese Cultural Revolution Database consists of seven parts (Part I: CCP documents, directives, and bulletins concerning the Cultural Revolution, Part II: Mao Zedong's speeches, directives, and writings concerning the Cultural Revolution, Part III: Lin Biao's speeches, directives, and writings concerning the Cultural Revolution, Part IV: Speeches, instructions, and other writings by CCP leaders during the Cultural Revolution, Part V: Important newspaper and magazine editorials and articles concerning the Cultural Revolution, Part VI: Important documents of the Red Guards and the Mass Movement during the Cultural Revolution, and Part VII: Important documents of heterodox thoughts during the Cultural Revolution). It contains ten thousand primary sources on Chinese Cultural Revolution, arranged by category. You can browse by contents, subject categories and date, organization, and place. The database is also searchable in simplified and traditional Chinese by author, title, and full-text.
There are three sub-datasets:
- The Chinese Anti-Rightist Campaign Database, 1957 – (中国反右运动数据库，1957-) consisting also of seven parts (Part I: Official documents relevant to the Anti-Rightist Campaign, Part II: Pertinent remarks, instructions, and writings by Mao Zedong before, during,and after the Anti-Rightist Campaign, Part III: Remarks and instructions related to the Anti-Rightist Campaign by political and government leaders, Part IV: “Ming-Fang” remarks and important newspaper and journal editorials and articles around the time of Anti-Rightist Campaign, Part V: Important rightist remarks and writings, Part VI: News reports and critical writings relevant to the Anti-Rightist Campaign, Part VII: Rightist archives: Verdicts, self-criticisms, confessions, and rehabilitation notices, etc.).
- Chinese Great Leap Forward and Great Famine Database,1958-1962 (中国大跃进-大饥荒数据库，1958-1962)
and
- The Database of the Chinese Political Campaigns in the1950s: From Land Reform to State-Private Partnership, 1949-1956 (中国五十年代初中期的政治运动数据库：从土地改革到公私合营，1949-1956)

The database comprises the complete contents of the newspaper Taiwan Nichinichi Sinpou 《臺灣日日新報》 of ...

Description: The database comprises the complete contents of the newspaper Taiwan Nichinichi Sinpou 《臺灣日日新報》 of the years1898-1944 as well as of its predecessor the Taiwan Shinpô 《臺灣新報》 of the years 1896 - 1897. The database is searchable by article titles and keywords, but not full-text. In order to increase the legibility 150.000 pages were rescanned. 3.500.000 article titles have been indexed. The Taiwan Nichinichi Sinpou 《臺灣日日新報》arose from the merger of the Taiwan Shinpô 《臺灣新報》 and Taiwan Nippô 《臺灣日報》 in 1898 under Japanese occupation. It was the highest-circulation newspaper and the most longlasting. The first issue had 6 pages, since November 1910 the newspaper had eight, six in Japanese and two in Chinese. Since July 1905 an independent Chinese issue existed under the title Kanbun Taiwan Nichinichi Shinpô (Hanwen Taiwan Riri Xinbao) 《漢文臺灣日日新報》, coming back to the original Japanese/Chinese layout in November 1911 and finally abandoning the Chinese pages in April 1937. The Taiwan Nichinichi Sinpou offers rich material for the study of the economic and social development of Taiwan under Japanese colonial rule.

DBpia is a full text database that covers the fields of the humanities,social science, natural ...

Description: DBpia is a full text database that covers the fields of the humanities,social science, natural science, engineering, medical science, art &sports, etc. in Korean language.
With its more than 1.900 journals, 2.000.000 articles, and 5.000 e-books DBpia is an easily accessible resource for Korean Studies.

Cited Description: DBpia is a prominent Online service of Korean academic journals, Conference Proceedings, professional journals, E-Books, WebDB and so on. All the contents of DBpia are preserving all the formats and features of the original printed books and journals.Therefore, users can make use of the same full-text and the detailed bibliographic information with the original books and journals.
DBpia is servicing more than 1,900 kinds of journals including those of SCI-class, and more than 10 thousands of new articles are added and updated every month.

KRPia is a full text Korean database that focuses on e-books on history, literature, art,culture, ...

Description: KRPia is a full text Korean database that focuses on e-books on history, literature, art,culture, philosophy, etc. It although provides access to translations of Korean classics, materials on traditional medicine etc.

Cited Description: KRpia is a name of our synthesized knowledge contents service that offers 266,371 theme indexes for 148 sorts of contents covering 10 categories, and as of April 2009 it is in continual expansion.
Currently, we are offering various contents services including terminology dictionaries, historical records, biographical dictionaries, classical materials for Korean studies, professional research articles, original texts of literary works, multimedia resources of Korean culture and fine arts.
In the knowledge & information society, Nurimedia has digitalized, built up into databases, and supplied the Koreanological contents, including the statute books, encyclopedia, classic works and authentic history such as Koryosa (ancient Korea History), Tripitaka Koreana, Samguk-Sagi/Samguk-Yusa (Histories of the Three Kingdoms), Balhaesa (History of Balhae Kingdom), Mokminsimseo, DaejeonHoitong, Jeungbomunheonbigo.

The airitiBooks plattform provides access to more than 6000 licensed ebooks from Taiwan in the ...

Description: The airitiBooks plattform provides access to more than 6000 licensed ebooks from Taiwan in the field of humanities and social sciences. All licensed titles can also be found in the EAD electronic catalogue (crossasia.stabikat.de) under ebooks and in the CrossAsia search. Access via the airitiBooks plattform provides fulltext access to licensed ebooks and preview access for all other titles.The licensed ebooks can be read online or downloaded for offline reading (i.e. borrowing the book for seven days). For downloading it is necessary to register at Airiti and to install the ebook reader iRead eBooks for PCs (Windows) or mobile devices (iOS and Android). After registration check out the ebook, start the ebook reader and download the ebook.Please refer to the guides in Chinese and English (PDF).

This Pishu database offers access to over three hundred Chinese blue, green, and yellow books, ...

Description: This Pishu database offers access to over three hundred Chinese blue, green, and yellow books, analytical reports on strategic issues. The 皮书数据库 has six sub databases: 中国社会发展数据库 (China social development database), 中国经济发展数据库 (China economic development database), 中国行业发展数据库 (China industrial sectors development database), 中国区域发展数据库 (China regional development database), 中国文化传媒数据库 (China culture and press database), and 世界经济与国际关系数据库 (World economy and international relations database). The database can be search via simple and advanced search. Searches can be performed on the fulltext or confined to head entries, authors and so on and further filtered. Individual titles can be browsed.

This electronic edition of the Qing Veritable Records was conjointly produced by the First ...

Description: This electronic edition of the Qing Veritable Records was conjointly produced by the First Historical Archive in Beijing and Shutong Digital. The quality of the selected originals and the typing is thus very high.
This version contains the eleven existing Qing Veritable Records from Qing Taizu 太祖 to Dezong 德宗 and moreover adds the Xuantong zhengji 宣統正紀 and the Manchu Veritable Records 滿洲實錄 (Manzhou shilu). The Manchu text is only available as image and not searchable; only the Chinese text running in the middle of each page of the Manzhou shilu is searchable as full text. < / br>
A short history of the Shilu versions and a tabular overview of the included originals is given on the entry page to the Qing Shilu database.
The fine-grained table of content allows to directly fo to a specific year and month of a reign. The paratexts with prefaces and editorial are not included in this electronic version. The alternative versions of the Qing shilu available in CrossAsia have them, but Erudition's MingQing shilu has them as images (without text) and Scripta sinica as full text (without images).
The usual features of Unihan databases are also available here, i.e.switch between image and full text (for which it is recommended toinstall the special Unihan font available at the Unihan site), the"looking glass" view, showing the original when moving over the fulltext and vice versa, and the access to a number of reference tools.

All five editions of the Qing Collected Statutes 大清会典 are assembled in this database to allow for a ...

Description: All five editions of the Qing Collected Statutes 大清会典 are assembled in this database to allow for a more easy comparison between the statutes published under Kangxi (1684), Yongzheng (1727/1732), Qianlong (1747), Jiaqing (1818) and Guangxu (1899). The Da Qing tong li 大清通礼 (大清通禮), Comprehensive Canon on Rituals of the Great Qing published 1757, is added as appendix.
The usual features of Unihan databases are also provided here, i.e. easy switching between image and full text (installing the special Unihan font is recommended), the "looking glass view" showing the original image inside the magnifying glass while moving over the full text and vice versa, access to a number of reference tools etc.

The database Online Contents – SSG South Asia is a selection of bibliographic data from the Swets ...

Description: The database Online Contents – SSG South Asia is a selection of bibliographic data from the Swets database Online Contents which is enlarged regularly by additional data provided by the Library of the South Asia Institute Heidelberg.

Description: The database contains diaries, letters, reports, drawings, maps, papers of East India Company representatives and colonial officials etc. such as the correspondence between Henry Dundas and Marquis Wellesley or documents of the Madras-based company Arbuthnot & Co. The source material is from the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh.

Collection of files held by The National Archives, the official archive of the United Kingdom. It ...

Description: Collection of files held by The National Archives, the official archive of the United Kingdom. It contains diplomatic correspondence, letters, reports, surveys, material from newspapers, statistical analyses, published pamphlets, ephemera, military papers, profiles of prominent individuals, maps and many other types of document. Full-text search is available across all documents. The collection comprises three sections: Independence, Partition and the Nehru Era, 1947-1964; South Asian Conflicts and Independence for Bangladesh, 1965-1971; Afghanistan and the Cold War, Emergency Rule in India, and the Resumption of Civilian Rule in Pakistan, 1972-1980

Description: Korean Social Science Data Center Data Bank offers survey data and statistics. Depending on the survey, questionnaire, report paper, data set, and/or statistics can be downloaded. Thus the raw data can be used for further studies. With these services KSDC DB is a very valuable resource for Social Science Studies.

Cited Description: Korean Social Science Data Center (KSDC) was established in November 1997 to build a new system of managing comprehensive sources of social science data. KSDC, in this system, collects and manages (inter-)national survey data and statistics related to social science research in order to support students and scholars even who are not equipped well with statistical learning. KSDC collects, reprocesses, and archives reliable and objective survey data and national statistics in our database and provides them for social science research. KSDC is one of the members of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), the largest data archive in the world. As the national member of ICPSR, KSDC facilitate making data available for other member institutions.

With over 5000 titles the 'Sequel to the Siku quanshu', is a worthy continuation of emperor ...

Description: With over 5000 titles the 'Sequel to the Siku quanshu', is a worthy continuation of emperor Qianlong's library collecting (and censuring) project of the late 18th century. Following up on earlier ideas, the Xuxiu Siku quanshu project ran from the 1920ies on and had various aims. It planned to collect titles produced after the finishing of the Siku quanshu collection (SKQS) in 1782 and especially after 1840, to reproduce editions better and less corrupted than those included in the SKQS, to recover titles forbidden in Qianlong times or excluded because they belonged to the Daoist or Buddhis canon, and to include novels and other literary styles considered too lowly by the SKQS editors asf. But, of course, also the editorial team of the Xuxiu SKQS had their "standards" and excluded what they considered "meaningless and useless books" (空疏無用之書) like almanacs, genealogies, lists of officials etc. Nevertheless, the Xuxiu SKQS was much broader in scope and larger in size than any other existing collection of Chinese historcial books. It also benefitted from the libraries of important intellectuals of late Qing, early Republican times which catered to the project.
In 1942 the project came to a full stop with over 30 thousand book abstracts written. In 1949 the drafts of these abstracts went into the possession of the library of the Chinese academy of science (中科院) in Beijing; finally in 1996 these abstracts were published in 37 volumes under the title 续修四库全书总目提要 (稿本); between 1995 and 2002 facsimiles of over 5213 titles of the Xuxiu SKQS were published in 1800 volumes by Shanghai guji chubanshe.
The publishing of a fulltext database of all titles from the Shanghai edition (and 100 additional titles) can be considered another milestone for everyone working in one or the other way on historical China - following the milestones of SKQS fulltext database (http://erf.sbb.spk-berlin.de/han/SikuQuanshu) and the ten thousand titles of the Erudition database Chinese Ancient Books 基本古籍库 (http://erf.sbb.spk-berlin.de/han/AncientBook).
The Xuxiu SKQS is one of three databases available via CrossAsia from the Diaolong 彫龍 database portal and allows browsing according to the sibu 四部 classes and searches in the fulltext, by author, title and confined to the commentary parts (附註) of texts. The fulltext can be easily compared with a scan of the original page and texts can be downloaded in txt format page by page.
The "paper version" of the database can be accessed via the shelfmarks 5 B 30000-1/1800; the facsimile volumes of the abstracts (not included in the database) can be found under the shelfmarks 5 B 14451-1/37.

The "Essentials of the Daoist Canon" counts as the main collection of Daoist texts after the ...

Description: The "Essentials of the Daoist Canon" counts as the main collection of Daoist texts after the Daozang. Its bibliographical history is rather complicated and subject to discussion. After a first version of the "Essentials" was compiled around 1700, in the 18th and 19th century several re-editions and addition were made to the set of texts until in 1906 He Longxiang 賀龍驤 and Peng Hanran 彭瀚然 published the 重刊道藏輯要 in Chengdu. The texts of the "Essentials" chiefly derive from Zhengtong Daozang 正統到藏 edition (1445) but it also contains some additional texts or other editions of Zhengtong texts. Specialists have called it an "indispensible source for research on Daoism in the Ming and Qing period" (see Monica Esposito's short presentation on the Daozang jiyao project page: http://www.daozangjiyao.org and Fabricio Pregadio's entry in the "The Encyclopedia of Taoism").
The 299 texts and scans currently available in the database are those of the 1906 printed version of the Daozang jiyao; for a catalogue of the titles see the East Asia catalogue (crossasia.stabikat.de, search for 道藏辑要 二仙庵藏重刊本) and also the catalogue of the collection compiled by Fabricia Pregadio and Monica Esposito (http://www.academia.edu/7110934/Catalogue_of_the_Daozang_Jiyao_道藏輯要目錄_).
Fulltext search, search for book title, author, comments etc. are available; scans of the 1906 edition are provided; texts are downloadable page by page.
The paper volumes of the "Essentials" have the shelfmarks 5 B 25951 to 5 B 25979; full text and scanned images of the Zhengtong Daozang can be found in the Scripta sinica database (http://erf.sbb.spk-berlin.de/han/ScriptaSinica/) under 子 > 宗教 (where also several other religious titles and collections are provided, incl. the Jiyao).
The database is part of the Diaolong portal

The 清代史料 is one of three databases available via CrossAsia from the Diaolong 彫龍 database portal – a ...

Description: The 清代史料 is one of three databases available via CrossAsia from the Diaolong 彫龍 database portal – a portal in progress - and contains the electronic versions of five different kinds of texts with currently 115 titles:
- the eleven Qing Veritable Records 清實錄 from Qing Taizu 太祖 to Dezong 德宗, the Xuantong zhengji 宣統正紀 and the Manchu Veritable Records 滿洲實(Manzhou shilu). The Manchu text is only available as image and not searchable; only the Chinese text running in the middle of each page of the Manzhou shilu is searchable as full text. The basis for the digitized text and images presented is - as stated in the database info - the 清内府鈔本 version. Alternative versions of the Qing shilu available in CrossAsia are the Erudition's MingQing shilu and the version in Scripta sinica as full text (without images). The facsimile volumes of the 清實錄 can be found under the shelfmarks 4º 855846-1/60 (中华书局, 1985/87) via the East Asia catalogue (crossasia.stabikat.de).
- the Qing Collected Statutes 大清会典 (五朝会典) in different editions for emperor Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Jiaqing and Guangxu. Several faksimile versions of the 大清会典 can be accessed via the East Asia catalogue. An alternative version of the Da Qing huidian available in CrossAsia is the Unihan database 清会典 : 大清五部會典, Qing Collected Statutes.
- the Guide to the Qing ranks and emoluments Da Qing jinshenquanshu 大清縉紳全書 based on different editions for the emperors Yongzheng, Qianlong, Jiaqing, Daoguang, Xianfeng, Tongzhi und Guangxu. A printed version of the 大清縉紳全書[光緒] is found under the shelfmark Libri sin. 1404 with its digitized version accessible under http://resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0000A7B400000000
- the Guide to the Qing board of war 大清中樞備覽 in different editions for Yongzheng 雍正, Qianlong 乾隆, Daoguang 道光, Xianfeng 咸豐, Tongzhi 统治 und Guangxu 光绪, and the Qing Essentials for Governance 大清輔政要覽全書 for emperor Yongzheng in the 京都琉璃厰同陞閣 edition.
etc.
Fulltext search, search for book title, author, comments etc. are available. The fulltext can be easily compared with a scan of the original page and texts can be downloaded in txt format page by page.

The database contains the standard editions of the Chinese classics edited, punctuated, and ...

Description: The database contains the standard editions of the Chinese classics edited, punctuated, and published by Zhonghua Shuju, covering Confucian classics, history, philosophy, and literature, such as the Twenty-four histories, Thirteen Classics and so on. Currently the database contains 630 titles, and is to be enlarged continously. It is a full-text searchable database. One can switch between text and image (via a smal green symbol in the text). Specialized search, dictionary and even annotation functions are provided. One can search with traditional and simple characters and even different character versions.

Cited Description: "Zhonghua Ancient Books Database" (Online Edition) is a large databaseof ancient books launched by Zhonghua Book Company (ZHBC). All the ancient books collected were proofread, collated and published by ZHBC...Apart from the text, it includes all the explanatory notes, commentaries, headnotes, proper nouns, etc. in ancieent books as well as the research results of modern scholars.

The Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics offers asystematic and comprehensive overview ...

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Cited Description: The Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics offers asystematic and comprehensive overview of the languages of China and thedifferent ways in which they are and have been studied. It providesauthoritative treatment of all important aspects of the languages spoken in China, today and in the past, from many different angles, as well as the different linguistic traditions in which they have beeninvestigated. In more than 500 articles, written by major specialists in the field, the Encyclopedia offers a synthesis of the most importantresearch in Chinese linguistics and up-to-date bibliographical coverage. As such it is the prime reference source for information on:
• the lexicon, syntax, and sound structure of the Sinitic and non-Sinitic languages of China, including sign languages
• the history of languages in China and their situation today
• the history of Chinese linguistics, both indigenous and Western traditions
• the sociolinguistic situation, language contact, and language variation
• psycho- and neurolinguistic studies on Chinese, including first language acquisition
• and many other aspects of Chinese and Chinese linguistics (e.g.,Chinese in the diaspora, Chinese loanwords in other languages, historyof lexicography, language pedagogy, etc.).

Notes: Associate Editors: Wolfgang BEHR University of Zürich, Yueguo GU Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Zev HANDEL University of Washington, C.-T. James HUANG Harvard University and James MYERS National Chung Cheng University

Brill’s Encyclopedia of China Online is based on the originally a thousand-page reference work on ...

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Cited Description: Brill’s Encyclopedia of China Online is based on the originally a thousand-page reference work on China with a clear focus on the modern period from the mid-nineteenth century tothe 21st century. Written by the world’s top scholars, Brill’s Encyclopedia of China Online is the first place to look for reliable information on the history,geography, society, economy, politics, science, and culture of China.Originally published and warmly received in German (edited by the GIGAInstitute of Asian Studies in Hamburg, published by WBG, Darmstadt,2003), Brill’s Encyclopedia of China Online will serve bothEnglish-language students and faculty in conveniently providing a wealth of reliable and solid information on China.
Brill’s Encyclopedia of China Online is also available in print, for more information visit http://www.brill.com/publications/reference-works/brills-encyclopedia-china.
Features and Benefits:
- Approx. 450 in-depth articles and approx. 850,000 words
- More than 100 black and white and full color illustrations, full color maps, and tables
- Bibliographies for further reading accompanying each article
- Extensive glossary of Chinese personal names
- Extensive indices

The 日本文学Web図書館 (Web Library of Japanese Literature) offers several titles pertaining to premodern ...

Description: The 日本文学Web図書館 (Web Library of Japanese Literature) offers several titles pertaining to premodern Japanese literature in electronic form. Of the five segments that are available only the so-called 辞典ライブラリー (Web Library of Dictionary) was licensed for CrossAsia (as indicated by the remark 「ログインできます。」 ("Log in possible")). This segment contains the following two comprehensive dictionaries about premodern Japanese poetry:
和歌文学大辞典 / 『和歌文学大辞典』編集委員会編. -- 千葉 : 古典ライブラリー , 2014.12. -- 1339p. -- 別タイトル: Dictionary of waka poetry.
歌ことば歌枕大辞典 / 久保田淳, 馬場あき子編. -- 東京 : 角川書店 , 1999.5. -- 1031p.
The extensive poetry collection 新編国歌大観（角川学芸出版） (Shinpen kokka taikan (Publisher Kadokawa Gakugei )) that is also part of the Web Library of JapaneseLiterature will be available through JapanKnowledge at the end of 2017/beginning of 2018.

More than 3500 titles of "all four classes" of literary production or erudite China were edited, ...

Description: More than 3500 titles of "all four classes" of literary production or erudite China were edited, collated and transcribed in this prestigious project of the Qianlong emperor (reg. 1735-1796). An army of 360 scholars worked over almost 10 years from 1773 until 1782 under the guidance of Ji Yun 紀昀 et al. Seven manuscript copies of the over 36 thousand volumes were produced,; four copies still exist today, with the one originally housed in the Forbidden city in the Wenyuange 文淵閣 being the most complete one.
Whereas the declared aim was to prevent works from getting lost and to compile from numerous editions one more reliable and with less writing mistakes for the use of the emperor, an effect was also that everything that denigrates activities of the ruling Manchus or their past was eliminated from the texts.
Nevertheless the Siku quanshu kept its position and esteem among scholars and researchers until today.
The Diaolong Siku quanshu database is included into the Diaolong portal with several other voluminous ressources that can be searched at the same time and with a representation of text and scanned image that can be navigated comfortably by switching between the two. Download is confined to page by page text files.

Currently about 3300 academic Chinese titles published in recent years are available to CrossAsia ...

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Cited Description: Currently about 3300 academic Chinese titles published in recent years are available to CrossAsia users via the CNKI eBook portal. Subjects covered are Literature/History/Philosophy (哲学与人文科学), Politics/Military Affairs/Law (政治军事法律), Education & Social Sicences (教育与社会科学), Economics & Management (经济与管理科学), and Traditional Chinese Medicine (中医学与中药学).
Titles can be browsed by subject or publisher and searched by title, author, abstract, table of content or full text. They can be previewed and read online, and downloaded as PDF (with searchable full text).

The database provides access to 38 key journals from the field of Asian studies, within the ...

Description: The database provides access to 38 key journals from the field of Asian studies, within the database marked with a rectangle in green, with content including years 2000 - 2019:
African and Asian Studies
Asian Journal of Social Science
Asian Medicine
Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy
Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law
Asiascape: Digital Asia
Bijdragen tot de Land-, Taal- en Volkenkunde
Brill Open Humanities - An International Journal
Brill Research Perspectives in China Law and Society
Brill Research Perspectives in Governance and Public Policy in China
Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics
Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale
Chinese Journal of Environmental Law
East Asian Publishing and Society
European Journal of East Asian Studies
Frontiers of Economics in China
Frontiers of History in China
Frontiers of Law in China
Frontiers of Literary Studies in China
Frontiers of Philosophy in China
Indo-Iranian Journal
Inner Asia
International Journal of Chinese Education
Journal of American-East Asian Relations
Journal of Chinese Humanities
Journal of Chinese Military History
Journal of Chinese Overseas
Journal of Religion in Japan
Korean Journal of International and Comparative Law
Ming Qing Yanjiu
NAN NÜ
New West Indian Guide
Review of Religion and Chinese Society
Rural China: An International Journal of History and Social Sciences
The China Nonprofit Review
The Chinese Journal of Global Governance
T'oung Pao
Wacana - Journal of Humanities of Indonesia
The journals are searchable in full text.

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is an international consortiumof university, college, and ...

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Cited Description: The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is an international consortiumof university, college, and independent research libraries. Founded in1949, CRL supports original research and inspired teaching in thehumanities, sciences, and social sciences by preserving and makingavailable to scholars a wealth of rare and uncommon primary sourcematerials from all world regions.CRL's deep and diverse collections are built by specialists and experts at the major U.S. and Canadianresearch universities, who work together to identify and preserve unique and uncommon documentation and evidence, and to ensure itslong-termintegrity and accessibility to researchers in the CRLcommunity.
CRL is based in Chicago, Illinois, and is governed by a Board of Directors drawn from the library, research and higher education communities.

Collection of files held by The National Archives, the official archive of the United Kingdom. It ...

Description: Collection of files held by The National Archives, the official archive of the United Kingdom. It contains diplomatic correspondence, letters, memoranda, annual reports, political summaries, maps, minutes of ministerial meetings, printed leaflets/booklets, printed extracts, economic summaries, speeches and many other types of document. Full-textsearch is available across all documents. The collection is divided into three parts: 1919-1930 Japan and Great Power status, 1931-1945 Japanese imperialism and the War in the Pacific, 1946-1952 occupation of Japan.